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[Matt Sealey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

armel (and ppc) architectures include the xserver-xorg-video-all package
for graphics.

Inside this metapackage is described every xorg video driver available
in the standard distro; however many of these cards are exceedingly rare
on these platforms. For example, vga and vesa are not very useful.
Several of the drivers are very rare even on i386 architectures (and it
would be practically unheard of to see them on x64, too).

The package should be knocked down to the bare essentials of the most
common drivers for the appropriate architecture in order to save space
on installation images. If users require such graphics cards, perhaps
the video-all package should not pull dependencies but instead udev
should notice a video card was plugged since last boot, and fetch the
appropriate driver instead of lumping them all into the system, similar
to the way codecs are installed?

Ironically I can't even find the armel packages for vesa or vga in
ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports pool (not main, universe, multiverse..) so
i wonder why rootstock manages to pull them in or why they are installed
on a Babbage using the latest karmic netboot?

This is weirdness that should be sorted out.

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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video-all metapackage includes many useless drivers on armel
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423518
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