On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 23:51 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > I've had this idea in my head for long, but as never found the time to > work on it, didn't feel appropriate to throw it to the wall and expect > someone else to implement it. Anyway, it seems to me it might be a nice > GSoC project, and not necessarily too complex. As I've my plate already > full, I'm not volunteering myself for mentoring, though. I'm CCing > de...@l.d.o as they should be in the loop and Petter as he was working > on integrating package data into discover-data at some point in the past, > which might be interested in mentoring. > > Problem > ~~~~~~~ > > I've always found it annoying that it's become very difficult to hunt > all packages that might be needed for or useful with the current > hardware on the system, and usually you tend to miss some. It might > be even trickier for non-technical users who might not even know they > need specific packages for something to work. [...]
There are also some hardware-specific drivers and tools that may be useful to some users but should not be recommended because they depend on out-of-tree kernel drivers that conflict with the in-tree drivers. Any solution should avoid conflating 'works with this device' and 'recommended on systems with this device'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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