On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 13:48 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 13:38 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> But then, if we had _that_, comps could grow a fourth class for
> "as-needed" and we'd just list all driver packages there, including
cups
> and webcam drivers and etc. Install image creation would pull them all
> in; anaconda would filter the available as-needed's based on target
> hardware.
>
> In that scenario you'd still need to do manual selection of some driver
> packages for critpathness, but, okay.
With this approach, you have lost a critical feature: the ability for
you to change your hardware (or move the software bits to a different
computer) and have everything automatically work.
Assuming pk actually had this feature, the next time you booted pk would
happily tell you about what driver you're missing.
- ajax