[Guillem Jover] > 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.
Yeah. Note that part of your propopsal is already implemented in discover/discover-data, and the /sbin/discover-pkginstall script will install hardware dependent packages. It can for example install raid monitoring software when a supported raid is detected. It might provide a starting point. :) Keeping the mapping from hardware to packages up to date is a hard problem without cooperation from the various package maintainers, and some hardware is hard to detect, but for the easy stuff (PCI and USB), the implementation is trivial. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100403210921.gc14...@login2.uio.no
