xorg-x11-drivers [inappropriately] requires all drivers modules

Arjan van de Ven arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Sat Jan 7 09:35:49 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 12:13 +1100, David Timms wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> >In addition it makes moving disks between machines harder etc etc... so
> >I hope the fedora core developers spend their time on more important
> >issues than this ;)
> >(it can easily be several manweeks of work.. and there's much bigger
> >fish to fry on the X front, like automatic configuration etc etc)
> >  
> >
> > that is a LOT of work, for almost no gain (X drivers are really tiny).
> 
> arjan: I see what you mean; I agree that saving 2.2MB of disk space aint 
> worth the effort; I realize fc is not really for the older hardware / 
> embedded hardware devices.

well you also need to see it in proportion. It's 2.2Mb *IN ADDITION TO
THE REST OF X*.  Look at it from a percentage of that (including a
desktop environment needed).. and it's almost nothing ;)




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