Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:57:30AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Marco Amadori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Alle 14:18, sabato 29 ottobre 2005, hai scritto:
>> >> Marco Amadori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >> > If there is also a proposal that at install time scans through external
>> >> > modules to find those needed by the host system I will be happier :-)
>> >>
>> >> That can be one area where discover2 can work. It has some good and
>> >> flexible enough database for it. We only need to finish the transition
>> >> from discover1 to it.
>> >
>> > So debian-installer could add binaries debs (building with m-a could be a
>> > pain
>> > at this stage) through discover2 for external modules automagically?
>>
>> In not far future would be possible to teach discover2 to
>> automatically install the need software to run a specific
>> hardware. For example a sane backend for scanner or a specific driver
>> for a printer. In this case, wouldn't be harder to add support to
>> install available kernel modules when available, right?
>
> We are not using discover2 yet, but discover1, and i thought the way to the
> future was to use hotplug only, as ubuntu did ?
In installer itself, for sure. But discover2 has some important
feature that cannot be satisfied by hotplug or any other yet.
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