Re: [libimobiledevice-devel] ipheth

[L. Alberto Giménez <agimenez@sysvalve.es>]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:55:53AM +0100, Paul McEnery wrote:
> In order for the udev rule to execute *any* application which performs
> the pairing, that application must exist in some package. That package
> will need to be a dependency of usbmuxd (unless usbmuxd provides it).
> It cannot simply be assumed that if usbmuxd is installed that gvfs,
> libgpod, etc will also be installed, let alone executed before the
> user attempts to connect using ipheth. The only way that these
> assumptions can be met, is with the appropriate dependencies.
> 
> The way that this must be tested is as follows:
> 
> - Debian base install (bare minimum system).
> - install <something>
> - configure interface to test
> 
> The <something> above needs to ensure that when an iPhone/device is
> plugged it, it will pair automatically.

Hi, If I'm allowed to put my $2c, I propose to put the pairing utility on the
libimobiledevice package, and make usbmuxd depend on it (which IMO is quite
natural).

Does it make sense at all?


Regards,
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