From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 22 17:33:45 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 7541416A46D for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 17:33:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1CB13C4AE for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 17:33:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so2681414nze for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 10:33:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=ZaLo8XzB96DCGafSynBVyA5/2ljjEHgobs3YosCnsIJagD9/ozWn+HB6isfxEWiq8H6yz8aQlp6SUPU/nR+21iqzowU9z/CASSULPhZfLw5H7g3s/oi6qWiYDt9gDR6siqwGE0R7+vIkRvpN3lmtd0sRtLN50tQyuzWP02L5344= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=I3UinqXtAqxc43GQ0hKZou0ekh0hTP7xs9o3cJ1eE5MRaZVNUOSz1toC8HiEWvVc38BAiKsOs5Lci5iQAkdiRPGcEZsBn3hW6RZpi8iptDgfABBea5461rE6mrC+O4DJYGrG01wL+BaSEHkljzppxBtg/mjV3tuvdq+J9d6iJls= Received: by 10.114.73.1 with SMTP id v1mr3414653waa.1179855223525; Tue, 22 May 2007 10:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.194.5 with HTTP; Tue, 22 May 2007 10:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 21:33:43 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" Sender: infofarmer@gmail.com To: "Florent Thoumie" In-Reply-To: <4653265C.8030902@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46531BCA.80804@FreeBSD.org> <4653265C.8030902@FreeBSD.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: bd5af92a916e0386 Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Jona Joachim 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 17:33:45 -0000 On 5/22/07, Florent Thoumie 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).