On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 04:06:45PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Christophe Fergeau > <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 06:27:59PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak@xxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> Some OS vendors recommend or require device drivers to be signed by them > >> before these device drivers could be installed on their OS. This > >> recommendation/requirement then also applies to the installer scripts of > >> that particular OS. > >> > >> This API enables apps to query such requirement/recommendation, if any. > > > > ACK. > > For what it's worth, the InstallScript level really is the wrong level for > > this kind of things as multiple install scripts are typically needed to > > install a single OS, and this API acts on a single install script. As a > > library user, I don't really care about that level of detail, and having > > something global to all install scripts needed to install an OS would be > > plenty enough. > > I see your point but this is actually going to happen on InstallConfig > level and I imagine apps (just like Boxes) will use the same config > for all scripts of the same profile of the same OS. What does puts me > off a bit is the fact that same profile scripts of the same OS are not > really glued together, so it can easily trick app devs in believing > that they are independent. > > I guess this is where the libvirt-builder will be useful, putting all > these together for apps so they don't need to use these (rather > low-level) API. I'm hoping to work on that as GNOME 3.10/Fedora 20 > feature. Well, seeing http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=238953 I can't help but think that this code would be better at the OsinfoInstallScriptList level rather than in apps/libvirt-designer. Christophe
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