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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:16:09 +0100
Martin Spitzbarth <m.spitzbarth AT gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been using the ati drivers for quite some time, but their build
> scripts always were too different from what sorcery expects, so that I
> regularly dropped spell creation after some hours. I took another look
> at them today, and I think I've found some clues about where to start
> (namely the various .spec files should tell how to build it).
> 
> In other words: I'm working on it and see how far I get.
> 
> One question that I'd like to have discussed is the name of the
> updated spell. My suggestion would be something like ati-fglrx, so
> that we don't break something for people who still use ati_driver or
> ati_driver-new.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin

You could do as the nvidia* drivers do and name them based on which
chipset the driver provides. You could even have ati-driver a meta
package that depends on ATI_DRIVER, which the driver-specific ATI*
spells would provide.

As for the name ati-fglrx, that's fine if you want to go that route.

-sandalle