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Re: libdrm-nouveau2/libdrm-radeon1 installed as requirement to libgl1-mesa-dri



On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 08:06:42PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 
> Sometimes there are insane hard dependencies, but what's bad with those
> dependencies? Take a look at the modules compiled into the default
> kernel, most modules are unneeded on your machine ;).

Huh? That is not insane at all! It allows the kernel to boot on as many
machines as possible.

AFAIU, only the modules which are necessary for your machine are
actually loaded, so approx. an extra 20MB is used(?) which, these days, 
shouldn't be a problem.


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