Bug#873578: xserver-xorg-video-all: The suggestion is ridiculous, please do not do it!
Package: xserver-xorg-video-all
Followup-For: Bug #873578
X-Debbugs-Cc: nils+debian-reportbug@dieweltistgarnichtso.net
Dear Maintainer,
Itai Shaked <itaisha@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it is safe to assume that in 2017, the vast majority of Debian
> users will have hardware meeting this criteria, so having
> `xserver-xorg-video-all` Recommend `xserver-xorg-video-intel` seems
> wrong.
It is 2022 and I had to install xserver-xorg-video-intel manually to get
a usable graphical desktop – on a computer which runs Debian just fine …
It seems to me the person suggesting this has no empathy for people who
do not own the latest and greatest hardware. Not everyone can figure it
out that a package that is supposed to install all drivers is not doing
that actually.
Therefore I kindly ask you to please not listen to this person who owns
newer hardware than I do.
Greetings,
Nils Moskopp
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'oldoldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-10-686 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-all depends on:
ii xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu 19.1.0-2
ii xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-2
ii xserver-xorg-video-fbdev 1:0.5.0-1
ii xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.17-1
ii xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1:2.5.0-1
ii xserver-xorg-video-vmware 1:13.3.0-3
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-all recommends:
ii xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20200714-1+b1
pn xserver-xorg-video-qxl <none>
xserver-xorg-video-all suggests no packages.
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