[packages/xorg-xserver-server] P: xorg-driver-video-modesetting, xorg-driver-video

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz]

On Wednesday 23 of November 2016, Jan Palus wrote:
> On 24.11.2016 00:12, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> > On 23.11.2016 17:16, atler wrote:
> > >   # Usual desktop setups need least one video driver to run, see
> > >   xorg.log which one exactly Suggests:	xorg-driver-video
> > > 
> > > +Provides:	xorg-driver-video
> > > +Provides:	xorg-driver-video-modesetting
> > 
> > nono no, do not provide "xorg-driver-video"!
> > 
> > it's virtual package indicating "any video driver"
> > 
> > if you changed that "suggest xorg-driver-video" to "provides
> > xorg-driver-video" you may as well just drop it, it's pointless because
> > the dependency will resolve by package itself.
> > 
> > do you see the above comment there above?
> > 
> >  # Usual desktop setups need least one video driver to run, see xorg.log
> >  which one exactly Suggests:	xorg-driver-video
> 
> Suggests is no longer there, but anyway I assume you don't want xserver
> to provide video driver even though it provides video driver (so user
> can select some other one). I don't really care so if there are no
> objections I will replace Provides with Suggests tomorrow.

Well, modesetting works on any KMS hardware, so I would go with dropping 
entire virtual xorg-driver-video thing from all drivers.

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )