On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 09:40 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > >> This looks like a good start. I think the way this kind of thing >> should work in general is that the system detects if you have the >> hardware, and dynamically installs support for it. We'd need some >> database mapping things like USB ids to packages. Networking is an >> exception; we should include as many drivers/tools for >> networking-related functionality as possible so that the system can be >> bootstrapped. >> >> Basically: if you have a GPS chip, gypsy gets installed and runs. If >> you don't, it doesn't. > > I've been banging a gong about something like that for years; right now > it's much too hard to know what you're supposed to do to make > $RANDOM_GADGET that you just plugged in actually work, but we can hardly > install the software for every USB device under the sun by default. > There's a clear need for something like this. Really it's just a kind of > widget that sits between udev and PackageKit, I think. Dumb question.... Can't the usb printer autoinstall just be extended to support other hardware? Based on usb/pci ids? Peter -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
