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Re: Branden, please apply attached patch (Was Re: Driver SDK.)



On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:37:51PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 13:14, Sven Luther wrote:
> > 
> > [...] proper driver packages, which should install and divert the
> > xfree86 provided packages, a bit like Michel's DRI trunk package do.
> 
> I think breaking out the drivers into their own package
> (xserver-xfree86-drivers or something?) would be cleaner though.

I thought about that back when I was first packaging XFree86 4.x, but I
decided against it because it would mean that the necessary package
selections just to get a working X server on many systems would become
hardware-dependent.

And that seemed like a *real* nightmare.

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Debian GNU/Linux                   |     willfully entering an arse-kicking
branden@debian.org                 |     contest with a monstrous entity
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     that has sixteen legs and no arse.

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