On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 13:01 +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > Hello, All! > > Just my simple proposal. If we look into mesa-libGL package, we'll see a > number of dri-modules: > > [petro@Petro ~]$ rpm -ql mesa-libGL *snip* > > I (and many others, definitely) haven't neither i810-based cars, nor > others from this list. So question is - why I enforced to install all of > these dri-modules? We can simply split this package into a bunch of little > packages, for example mesa-libGL, mesa-dri-i810, mesa-dri-i830, etc. It''s > not a hard work, IMO. > > The same thing with kernel. Not all of kernel-modules are needed actually. > Why don't repack kernel into kernel, kernel-modules-all (which contains > nothing, actually, but installs a huge number of small packages with > modules itself - the way xorg-x11-drivers does). > > Any ideas? It doesn't save much space, the modules are not loaded if not used - and one thing I really like about RH/Fedora - CPU fries? no problem. Slap in a new board - which may be different chipset, may require a completely different video card, etc. - kudzu just figures it out - and I'm good to go. When my Athlon 900 system w/ VIA chipset and voodoo3 died - and I switched to an nforce2 system which required a new video card, I went nvidia - first booting, it took a few extra seconds as it had to change the hardware settings and migrate my NIC settings etc. - but it just worked. Can this still be accomplished if you go modular with that stuff? Only way I see possible, since it is hardware specific stuff, is if they all are installed anyway - in which case, do they need to be split up? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
