Hi! On Mon, 2019-07-01 at 22:59:51 +0100, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: > On 01/07/2019 18:10, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > > Please don't do that. This IMHO clearly belongs into the operator's > > hands > > Do you mean "not as long as it would cause the above bugs" or "not ever"? > If the latter, is it because of wasted storage/bandwidth or something else? > > Do you also believe that the existing hardware-related -all packages > (printer-driver-all(-enforce), va-driver-all, vdpau-driver-all, > xserver-xorg-input-all, xserver-xorg-video-all) should not exist / should > not be installed by default?
As long as we do not have an out-of-the-box way to automatically propose/install hardware-specific packages to match the current system, the «-all» package pattern is the best we've got, which gives a good default, but makes it possible to removed unnecessary packages. > > (or possibly some installer magic). > > Do we have such a mechanism? I agree this would be better if it existed. > > The AppStream metadata format includes a field for "hardware this works > with", and beignet-opencl-icd has one, but I don't know if any existing > tools use this field. The closest thing I'm aware of is isenkram, but re-checking it now, it looks it's now tailored for hot-plugged hardware? Its README contains interesting information on alternatives and similar solutions. CCed Petter for further input. Thanks, Guillem