On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 19:30 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is a never-ending battle. The proper place for such a > > determination is with the service itself. > > Hmmm. On the other hand I do not like the idea to stuff the > whole machine-type-detection logic into each and every package. Which is why you have a library (be it kudzu, hal, or whatever your hardware abstraction layer library of the week happens to be) and ensure that *it* can do the probing for you. Then you just have to have the package know what it cares about and see if there's any available. Jeremy
