On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 01:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 10:51 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > >> What was the point of the metapackage, originally? To install ALL > >> drivers at install time and let firstboot sort it out? > > > > To ensure that (for most cases), all drivers are installed and continue > > to be updated as new drivers are added. That way, if someone changes > > out their video hardware, they don't get hosed by not having the driver > > available. > > Would it make sense for Anaconda to detect a laptop and only install the > driver the system needs? No. Different install paths like this are just recipes for lots of pain and unexpected bugs Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
