On 05/09/2006, at 11:41 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 09:36 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
Then I wonder what the point was to splitting them up? I was one who
thought
this would be a great time to jettison all the old video card
drivers.
Like
when would you ever install a Tseng video card? Or S3? And if you
did,
won't
the Vesa drivers work well enough until you install a more optimized
driver?
Now when an update is made to an upstream driver, the X maintainer
just
has to respin the driver, not the entire Xorg blob. An update can be
made just for the driver package which is a MUCH smaller download than
the entire Xorg blob. If in the future we get some way of doing
dynamic
package loading based on hardware detection, then we can trim out the
packages.
I understand the reasons for going modular, and I love the idea. I
guess the big question in my mind is why do I care if the s3 driver
or vmware driver has a security hole and needs an update? Sure, I
won't be using it - ever - which means it can have all the holes in
there it likes, it will never get run. Keeping this in mind, why
would I want to bother downloading updates for X drivers that I don't
have?
Even at worst case, and I did pull my laptop apart, desoldered the
video chips and upgraded the card (or simply replaced the card in a
desktop :)), then hopefully I'd know that I can install the latest
driver via yum from a console (even if X completely refused to work!).
Following this even further, even if I didn't know what graphics card
drivers are out there, I could use 'yum list xorg-x11-drv*' to get a
list and go from there.
Maybe this is best dealt with in the installer - as it already setup
up X to work after the installation, it could easily know what video
driver to install and choose not to install the rest.
I guess I just see it as another 58 or so packages I don't have to
worry about or see or update.
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