stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

[Donnie Berkholz]

On 23:23 Sun 20 Jan     , David Miller wrote:
> From: Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:10:17 +0100
> 
> > I'm sure that we can all see what will happen to the SDK, with what you 
> > propose.
> > 
> > But guess what, you can forget about giving people easy access to new 
> > hardware support on a distribution that is currently shipping.
> 
> That's simply not true.
> 
> It's a packaging issue, purely.
> 
> You can put the driver modules into seperate packages, and update them
> independantly as well.
> 
> Nothing about having the driver sources in the Xserver tree prevents
> distribution and driver folks from doing things like that.

Unless you want to provide driver SRPMs or you're a source-based 
distribution. =) I suppose it would still work if there were some way to 
have drivers+server in the same tarball but choose to only build single 
drivers..

Thanks,
Donnie