with F9, will we still need ALL X drivers?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Sun Mar 2 16:58:01 UTC 2008


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.

Jeremy




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