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Re: Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages



> Ideally the package manager front-ends would propose for installation to
> the user all hardware related packages for currently detected hardware
> in the system, or removal once such hardware is not present (although
> that might need to be disabled for pluggable hardware).

The implementation would IMO also to some extend need to be aware of the 
environment into which the installation is taking place. On a Gnome 
desktop system it should propose Gnome packages, on a KDE desktop system 
it should propose equivalent KDE packages.


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