Bill Nottingham wrote:
Philip Prindeville (philipp_subx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said:
What? No. You can have conditional requirements in the RPM... such
as "*iff* the hardware I'm running on has a wireless NIC, then require
wpa_supplicant." So the RPM can detect a wireless adapter and
conditionally define a Requires: wpa_supplicant line in the NetworkManager
RPM.
Runtime adding of dependencies based on PCI/USB/etc. probing...? I'm
pretty sure RPM can't do that.
Look at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions, in
particular is_wireless_device().
Also look at how "service network status" works.
The user is also completely capable of manually installing wpa_supplicant
if he knows he will be using a plug-in wireless card (though more and
more wireless cards are mini-PCI, and hence don't get unplugged much).
This would be better than having an unconditional requirement for wireless
support in wired-only (desktop) environments.
Currently:
- user uses wireless. It just works.
- user doesn't use wireless. It just works, and they have an extra package.
Your proposal:
- user uses wireless. They must remember to install a specifically named
package, otherwise, it fails completely.
No, only for plug-in wireless users. But they need to do that anyway.
(for the aforementioned chicken-and-the-egg reasons...)
-Philip
- user doesn't use wireless. It works.
How is this better *for the user*?
Bill
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