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

Jan Palus atler at pld-linux.org
Wed Nov 23 23:58:24 CET 2016


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.


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