On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 18:22 +0100, David Martínez Moreno wrote: > El martes, 20 de diciembre de 2005 17:23, David Nusinow escribió: > > > On the other hand, I understand that this heavy separation leads to > > > individual per-driver packages, doesn't it? > > > > Yeah, it does. The problem is obviously a lot more labor at this stage, but > > the benefit is that we can do quicker builds, tests, and deployments. We > > can also let our users only install their required drivers if they wish. > > It's a pain, but with proper scripting it shouldn't be a huge deal. > > Daniel's already written a script to update each package's source and we > > can adapt it for our tree if need be. > > Then we will start to receive bug reports by users without the right > driver, > isn't it? Probably a massive drivers-all metapackage will be a mid-term > solution...
Why only mid-term? Something like xserver-xorg depending on xorg-video-drivers | xorg-video-driver (with every video driver package providing xorg-video-driver and xorg-video-drivers being the metapackage depending on all of them) seems like a pretty good solution to me. The same principle should work with the other classes of drivers as well. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
