sean darcy wrote:
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 21:01 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
...
xorg-x11-drivers has been a metapackage with nothing dependent on it for
a very, very long time. Feel free to erase it.
rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-voodoo
error: Failed dependencies:
xorg-x11-drv-voodoo is needed by (installed)
xorg-x11-drivers-7.3-2.fc9.i386
I think you missed Ignacio's point:
yum erase xorg-x11-drivers
then any you are sure you don't want.
eg I have for a more than two years similar to:
$ yum list installed xorg*-d*
Loading "downloadonly" plugin
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Installed Packages
xorg-x11-drv-evdev.i386 1.1.2-5.fc8 installed
xorg-x11-drv-keyboard.i386 1.2.2-2.fc8 installed
xorg-x11-drv-mouse.i386 1.2.3-1.fc8 installed
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.i386 2.1.6-1.fc8 installed
xorg-x11-drv-nv.i386 2.1.6-1.fc8 installed
xorg-x11-drv-vesa.i386 1.3.0-10.fc8 installed
xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse.i386 12.4.3-1.fc8 installed
xorg-x11-drv-vmware.i386 10.15.2-1.fc8 installed
xorg-x11-drv-void.i386 1.1.1-6.fc8 installed
xorg-x11-proto-devel.noarch 7.3-3.fc8 installed
The development argument used to support installing all drivers is that
at a change of video card or move a hard disk to another machine, X
should be able to find and load the correct drivers. Making them all
available by default eases support/fedora-list/buzilla mail, and is only
a small storage burden in any case.
My opinion is that it would be nice to have the hardware detection go
"oh my god - you stuck in a new video card - im downloading the driver
now - installing it and you'll be ready to rock in no time".
DaveT.
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