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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] modular xorg
From:       Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud () mandriva ! com>
Date:       2006-05-22 13:52:18
Message-ID: m2y7wuf9pp.fsf () vador2 ! mandriva ! com
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Colin Guthrie <cooker@colin.guthr.ie> writes:

> At the moment it's due to a limitiation of the various configuration
> tools.

indeed

after an hardware upgrade, you don't want to see the bootstrapping
either halt waiting for a CD (or missing network) or fail to start X
because you miss a driver.

my 2 cents

> 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 ;)

:-)
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