Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>]

Hello,

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:

reassign 577451 pkgsel
severity 577451 wishlist
thanks

On Sunday 11 April 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> For some kind of hardware, it would be very nice if the Debian
> installer automatically installed the packages to support the hardware
> in question.

IMO this belongs in pkgsel, not in hw-detect. It has nothing to do with
hardware detection as used in D-I itself.

And it would be nice if it could be disabled by preseeding as well.

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