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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] modular xorg
From:       Colin Guthrie <cooker () colin ! guthr ! ie>
Date:       2006-05-21 9:57:45
Message-ID: 44703999.5030505 () colin ! guthr ! ie
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Raphaël Gertz wrote:
>>Le Dimanche 21 Mai 2006 00:47, Thomas Spuhler a écrit :
>>I am still trying to figure out the advantage of having xorg 7 as modular
>>When I do a urpmi --auto-select  I get a ton of video drivers for all kind
>>of possible cards. Why do I need all of them.
> 
> Because packaged put all the video driver and useless things in x11-xorg 
> metapackage :'(

All of this was discussed at great length prior to packaging Xorg7.

At the moment it's due to a limitiation of the various configuration 
tools. They all assume that the relevent Xorg driver for the detected 
hardware is installed on the system and do not have support for 
installing the necessary package. It is far easier to have all the 
drivers installed on the machine (as per the old monolithic package). 
This may change in the future as the tools get better, but they will be 
harder to maintain as a tradeoff.

I kinda feel the same. As someone who knows my system, why have these 
packages there? But I can see why it's far easier this way.

Of course the other advantage of modular is that Xorg monolithic is not 
gonna be released anymore ;)

Col

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