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. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
