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Re: Avoiding install of ALL X video drivers



> You can uninstall xserver-xorg-video-all and all unused drivers as long
> as you keep at least one package that provides "xserver-xorg-video-2".
> The same holds for xserver-xorg-input-all and the individual input
> drivers.

i'd rather not install in the first place, which is what i'm trying
now. On a new system, without X yet, i tried:

# apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-input-mouse
xserver-xorg-input-kbd

It installs a total of 86 packages (129MB), mostly libs,
xserver-common, -xorg-core, fonts... If i try:

# apt-get install xserver-xorg

It'll go up to 117 packages (137MB), with ALL the i/o drivers as
well... Not a big difference, but they're mostly useless packages and
if you have an old pc with a small disk... ;)

Having lspci installed, couldn't xerver-xorg install dummy packages,
then run a script to find out which drivers it needs, and then install
only those?

Thanks for the tips.
Nuno
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