with F9, will we still need ALL X drivers?
Christopher Aillon
caillon at redhat.com
Sun Mar 2 20:13:25 UTC 2008
On 03/02/2008 03:09 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 10:51 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> What was the point of the metapackage, originally? To install ALL
>>> drivers at install time and let firstboot sort it out?
>>
>> To ensure that (for most cases), all drivers are installed and continue
>> to be updated as new drivers are added. That way, if someone changes
>> out their video hardware, they don't get hosed by not having the driver
>> available.
>
> Would it make sense for Anaconda to detect a laptop and only install the
> driver the system needs?
Not really, because you don't necessarily know what I need. I could be
installing onto a removable hard drive, for instance. I could be doing
one install and then cloning to a bunch of other machine. And it would
suck for virt, too.
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