with F9, will we still need ALL X drivers?

[Christopher Aillon]

On 03/02/2008 03:09 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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?

Not really, because you don't necessarily know what I need.  I could be 
installing onto a removable hard drive, for instance.  I could be doing 
one install and then cloning to a bunch of other machine.  And it would 
suck for virt, too.