Question about hardware detection

[Stephan Foley <foley12723@gmail.com>]

Hello all! I am developing a Fluxbox Debian Pure Blend (see:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFluxbox). The reason I'm posting to
debian-edu is I was planning on hardware detection using discover,
read-edid and mdetect, but was looking at hwinfo which is used by
DebianEdu.

I sent an email to debian-devel where I was told hardware detection is
a thing of the past:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/01/msg00264.html

(great post, btw).

So, I would like to ask this list to verify before dropping the idea
of hardware detection.

Thanks for any insights!

Steve