X.org updates change dozens of packages

[Derek Broughton]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:

> Every couple of days now, apt-get upgrade tells me that
> somewhere on the order of 70 packages -- all of them related
> to various x.org drivers -- have changed. Have all those
> packages actually changed, or is there some build-dependency
> problem? If the latter, is there any way to factor out bits
> of those drivers so that small changes to the xorg package
> itself don't require me to download all the associated
> drivers?
> 
They've split out the drivers for all the different video cards and input
devices.  Now if only someone would fix xorg-synaptics-driver so that I
could get rid of the drivers I don't need (it depends on xserver-xorg,
which depends on everything).
-- 
derek