On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 09:34 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 12:12 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > > And input is even briefer (evdev, synaptics, wacom, vmmouse). I'd like > > to chop the -drivers metapackage down to just this set, and either make > > a new metapackage in optional for -drivers-retrocomputing or simply list > > all the drivers there individually. Note that since we're keeping > > drivers for fbdev and vesa we should still get graphics on most devices > > even if the user doesn't explicitly ask for a native driver. > > > > So that's the rough plan. Comments appreciated if I'm overlooking > > anything. > > Well, the less intrusive alternative is just to make graphics drivers a > comps group rather than using a metapackage. Metapackages are generally > 'frowned upon' in Fedora anyway, and you're supposed to do stuff with > comps groups. Doing it that way would remove the critical path > implications; we could then just add the important drivers to critpath > individually. Not that I object, but that's just moving the goalposts from "which drivers in the metapackage" to "which drivers in comps". It doesn't address the construction of the list. - ajax
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