Re: Branden, please apply attached patch (Was Re: Driver SDK.)
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 02:53, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 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.
Eh? I mean a single package for all drivers (of which the admin can
choose between last-released, current-cvs, ... flavours), in case that
wasn't clear.
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