Hello and thank you for this in depth answer! On 2016-01-07, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
As someone working on Debian derived live systems since the earlier kernel 2.4 days, I wonder why you think to need any of those on a modern linux system at all?
I am probably reading old references. I read through your reply twice. Just to clarify, a major part of the project is targeting thin clients and older hardware. Project will most commonly be an install and not a live cd.
linux >= 2.6, udev and kmod do a great job to probe all auto-discoverable devices on their own. The things they miss either can't be detected automatically or at least not in a safe way.
So I will drop the hardware discovery packages.
You haven't really revealed if the target of your pure blend is an installed system or a live environment (the wiki page and your mail slightly tend towards a live system, but neither provide a definitive answer), but in neither case it should be much of a concern how to detect hardware (as that's either solved by d-i or your live framework in a desktop/ WM agnostic way) for you as blend maintainer. If you do, you're quickly leaving the pure-blend domain and venture into the derivatives land[3].
This really struck a cord...the issue of not leaving the pure-blend domain. I will keep this in mind.
You'll probably find an audience with more specific knowledge in these particular areas on the debian-derivati...@lists.debian.org and debian-l...@lists.debian.org lists.
I will note mailing lists for future reference. Thanks again. I will need to go through your reply a couple of times to catch the subtleties. It's a great reference and I appreciate you taking the time to write it all out. Steve
