Welcome back!
Thanks for sharing your ideas, it is always wise to consider all of our options. Let's consider.
DriverPacks primarily targets professional users. Users who could have any machine at anytime in front of them, not the home or individual users supporting themselves and a PC or two (they don't donate )... Admins that care for hundreds or thousands or the bench tech who has eight machines on his bench. People who have to work on a POS machine because it's next in line. they have to take what is in front of them not what they chose to buy or use just what they are stuck fixing. Sure you can decide you are only going to have Intel at your house... but DriverPacks was not written just for you...
If you want a disc with just nvidia drivers on it please make one... we will even be glad to help you.
We even have a forum for those... We call them 3rd party DriverPack. Anyone can make them - Even you... Please do we might even get some users to give you feedback on them!
No, we are not going to restructure the DriverPacks just for you...
Since you are the only one who has even asked in five years.
Thanks for asking. - Sorry, No -
Since we target an audience that wants to put their install disc in ANY machine and have it work...
Your ideas would not benefit our target audience nor our primary goal.
In fact it would be detrimental to having all the packs work together. This is the opposite of our goal. You may remember our goal is to support all hardware. not some or a certain machine or a certain chip.
All means all...
Why it is not feasible to split them as you recommend... Many drivers are not compatible with each other.
So we would be forced to put two similar drivers (that cannot coexist) in two separate packs, and if a user were to use both packs that set (pair) of drivers would fail. You would create a situation where you could use one pack or the other but not both. this is because most drivers are very poorly written. Hey your idea looks good on paper but it would take dozens of people months to even get it anywhere close to working. (nothing is impossible but why kill yourself if there is no benefit)
If you believe this is impractical then I will guess that you are not a professional technician, and therefore DriverPacks was not intended for you... and you don't have the life experience to understand why it needs to be as it is. However if you were willing to donate a couple of grand to the project we might reconsider
You CAN do what you want to do... You just have to do it yourself!
If you need help just ask. We are eager to help you to help yourself!
I have a tool in beta with the testing team right now that may help you. it is a HWIDs based installer...
It extracts only the drivers from the pack that are compatible with the local machine.
By capturing the tools output someone could easily put the drivers in a 3rd party DriverPack.
thus a user like yourself could make their own 3rd party DriverPack of machine specific drivers from the DriverPacks.
So although we don't support your idea directly i think we (will) provide a tool that makes doing what you desire a breeze.
PS RogueSpear suggested per machine packs at one time which is a similar idea to yours but much more practical. It was never followed up on because there will always be an addin device you did not count on . It is truly better just to have all the drivers ready to go every time... anything less would be uncivilized!
Your idea is based on the fact that you know waht hardware you have in your machine... Techs never know what is going to be in thier machines
PSS CD rom is a dead technology... DVD or bust!