Bug#867991: should provide xorg-driver-video
On 10/07/17 23:49, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-core
> Version: 2:1.19.3-2
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> I use the modesetting driver provided by xserver-xorg-core for my Intel
> hardware.
> Yet xserver-xorg insist on pulling in other video drivers due to
> Depends: xserver-xorg-video-all | xorg-driver-video
>
> xserver-xorg-core should have a
> Provides: xserver-xorg-video
> so unneeded drivers can be uninstalled
This would be nice, but I fear this would cause new installs to not pull
xserver-xorg-video-all. If that's so, maybe we could fix that by having the
necessary task depend on xserver-xorg-video-all directly...
Emilio
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