Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 21:33:43 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Florent Thoumie" <flz@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Jona Joachim <jaj@hcl-club.lu> Subject: Re: use OPTIONS in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers Message-ID: <cb5206420705221033l53aff646x711d85c6aa32e231@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4653265C.8030902@FreeBSD.org> References: <f2v3qg$vfl$1@sea.gmane.org> <46531BCA.80804@FreeBSD.org> <f2v6ie$vfl$2@sea.gmane.org> <4653265C.8030902@FreeBSD.org>
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On 5/22/07, Florent Thoumie <flz@freebsd.org> wrote: > Jona Joachim wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2007 17:35:22 +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote: > > > >> Jona Joachim wrote: > >>> Hi! > >>> I just wanted to ask why the x11-drivers/xorg-drivers port installs all > >>> those drivers unconditionally. > >>> Wouldn't it be sensible to use the OPTIONS framework to let the user > >>> choose what he wants and needs? > >>> To make the choice easier for the user you could enable drivers that he > >>> most likely needs by default. > >>> To find out what graphics driver he needs you could consult pciconf(8). > >> This will be done within the next few weeks. > > > > Great! > > Would it be possible to include an option to depend on x11/nvidia-driver? > > Probably not, as it's not part of xorg-drivers. We don't want to make it a part of xorg-drivers because it's not a part of xorg-drivers? :-) More and more drivers will appear which are developed outside X.org. Personally, I see no harm in letting them into the infrastructure (maybe not by default).
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