Charles Curley wrote:
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 04:42:19PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
The total disk space used by all X drivers combined is extremely small, both in terms of megabytes, and in terms of dollars of disk space. Small enough on the scale of care, to be totally negligible.
That is a value judgement. It may well be accurate for us folks in North America or Europe. However, it may not be accurate for someone struggling in a non-profit, or for someone in Africa or Asia.
My point is that installed system disk-space usage of the video and input drivers was not part of the deciding factor that went into choosing to modularize the drivers - regardless of wether or not somebody out there might have some benefit of not installing all of the drivers.
I've stated this only because some people might mistakenly be of the opinion that the modularization of X was done to make it possible to reduce the space used by drivers on an installed system, and that very much was not the case.