From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 22 16:52:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2138C16A46D for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 16:52:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gofdx-freebsd-x11@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D083513C4E1 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 16:52:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gofdx-freebsd-x11@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HqXaz-00081p-9i for freebsd-x11@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 18:52:25 +0200 Received: from 4be54-4-82-234-154-189.fbx.proxad.net ([82.234.154.189]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 18:52:25 +0200 Received: from jaj by 4be54-4-82-234-154-189.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 18:52:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org From: Jona Joachim Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:52:17 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 4be54-4-82-234-154-189.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Pan/0.128 (SR/CL: Leitmotiv: Toynbee Idea) Sender: news Subject: Re: use OPTIONS in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:52:27 -0000 On Tue, 22 May 2007 20:22:02 +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 5/22/07, 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). > > It was the way of POLA. Traditionally, xorg installed all available > drivers. Also, drivers don't take very long to compile. When some > pkg_create-related tweaks are committed, the time xorg-drivers take to > compile and install will be negligible if compared with the rest of > xorg. Yes of course it doesn't take a lot of time to compile and it doesn't use a lot of disk space but I don't really like to have a lot of stuff installed that I don't need. The user wouldn't be astonished because he would be asked what he wants with reasonable default values. The port could install all drivers if BATCH is defined. Of course it was just a small idea, it's not a big deal if it installs all drivers. Jona