rfc/headsup: graphics driver packaging in F16+

[Adam Jackson]

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 09:34 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 12:12 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 
> > And input is even briefer (evdev, synaptics, wacom, vmmouse).  I'd like
> > to chop the -drivers metapackage down to just this set, and either make
> > a new metapackage in optional for -drivers-retrocomputing or simply list
> > all the drivers there individually.  Note that since we're keeping
> > drivers for fbdev and vesa we should still get graphics on most devices
> > even if the user doesn't explicitly ask for a native driver.
> > 
> > So that's the rough plan.  Comments appreciated if I'm overlooking
> > anything.
> 
> Well, the less intrusive alternative is just to make graphics drivers a
> comps group rather than using a metapackage. Metapackages are generally
> 'frowned upon' in Fedora anyway, and you're supposed to do stuff with
> comps groups. Doing it that way would remove the critical path
> implications; we could then just add the important drivers to critpath
> individually.

Not that I object, but that's just moving the goalposts from "which
drivers in the metapackage" to "which drivers in comps".  It doesn't
address the construction of the list.

- ajax
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