with F9, will we still need ALL X drivers?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Mar 2 20:09:43 UTC 2008


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?

Rahul




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