rfc/headsup: graphics driver packaging in F16+

[Adam Jackson]

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 12:23 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Adam Jackson (ajax at redhat.com) said: 
> > So that's the rough plan.  Comments appreciated if I'm overlooking
> > anything.
> 
> The question would be how we ensure that these additional drivers are in the
> install image, or in the installed system, if necessary. Or do we not care
> if they get vesa?  How would users be informed/able to install drivers if
> necessary? (I don't know that PK search is good here.)

To a first approximation, I deeply do not care.  If you're choosing to
use an s3virge in 2011 you've already decided to make your life hard.

But if we're trying to be completionists about it, import the data
from /usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/*.xinf into virtual Provides for
each driver package and teach packagekit or whatever how to cope.
Something like this:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-April/135004.html

But then, if we had _that_, comps could grow a fourth class for
"as-needed" and we'd just list all driver packages there, including cups
and webcam drivers and etc.  Install image creation would pull them all
in; anaconda would filter the available as-needed's based on target
hardware.

In that scenario you'd still need to do manual selection of some driver
packages for critpathness, but, okay.

- ajax
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