with F9, will we still need ALL X drivers?

sean darcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 16:49:54 UTC 2008


sean darcy wrote:
> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 21:01 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
>>> rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-voodoo-1.1.1-1.fc8
>>> error: Failed dependencies:
>>>          xorg-x11-drv-voodoo is needed by (installed) 
>>> xorg-x11-drivers-7.2-9.fc8.i386
>>
>> 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
> 
> which means that if I did erase it with -nodeps, yum would just drag it 
> back in with any update.
> 
> Perhaps the answer is the xorg-x11-drivers should not depend on the 
> individual drivers, but only have the individual drivers depend on 
> xor-x11-drivers.
> 
> sean
> 

Sorry. Now I get it. erase xorg-x11-drivers ( sound of hand slapping 
forehead ).

Then take out whichever drivers you don't need.

But f9 will install xorg-x11-drivers by default?

sean




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