RFC: X.Org X11 modularization project - rpm package driver naming

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Sat Aug 27 19:38:14 UTC 2005


Matthew E. Lauterbach wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 19:11 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
>  
>
>>On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:48:55 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
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>>
>>>One of the benefits of the modularized X.Org X11R7, is that it makes it
>>>much easier for us to provide individual driver updates without having to
>>>release the entire 150Mb monolithic X release.
>>>      
>>>
>>Why not merge in the SUSE support for patch RPMs into the Fedora rpm? That
>>would solve the same problem.
>>
>>    
>>
>For Fedora sure...but what about for Debian or any of the other non-RPM
>based distros?
>
This RFC and related discussion only applies to Fedora development.  
Other distributions using a different packaging system have to make 
their own decisions

regards
Rahul




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