Daniel Burrows wrote: > Debian has a tendency, as a project, to want to assemble a huge > collection of programs that can be shoveled onto the user's hard drive. > We don't generally do a lot of cross-package integration beyond making > sure that packages are basically functional when you install them. I must disagree. menu, info files registration, document registration via various tools, emacs script integration, ifupdown scripts that extend the capabilities of /etc/network/interfaces, ppp hooks, logcheck ignore files, sgml/xml catalog registration, mime, all these go above and beyond making a package basically functional and contribute to debian being a well integrated system. > So, for instance, I can count 5 tools off the top of my head in Debian > that perform some sort of hardware detection (including the kernel > itself!), and there are probably more. One of them is the hardware > detection software that Red Hat itself uses! However, the install procedure > doesn't know about them; they aren't used to configure X X config doesn't use _all_ of them. It does use discover, read-edid, and mdetect. As to the install procedure: > Debian won't have decent support for adapting to the user's hardware > until we see a more collaborative spirit in the Project...and at present > things seem to be tending in rather the other direction, at least on > this list. Maybe you're unaware that the debian-installer project has created an installer for Debian that does full hardware detection (except X). FWIW, we use discover for hardware detection, along with hotplug on the installed system. There's a vast amount of integration and collaboration going on over on debian-boot and we'd not be able to do a lot of it without the cooperation of numerous developers in the project at large. For example: > the package managers > don't know that spicctrl might be useful for my laptop http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/07/msg00963.html We'd be glad of someone helping with the idea we reached in that thread. > [0] by which I mean that if you have two drives, it'll only look for > audio CDs in the first one. Maybe you should file a bug report? -- see shy jo
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