use OPTIONS in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers

Florent Thoumie flz at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 22 16:34:33 UTC 2007


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.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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