On Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 12:04 Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > Ok, fine, BUT we had a tool knocking about for a while called hwd, which > did the same as hwdetect and people clamoured on a regular basis for its > inclusion in Arch's base pkgs to help people set up their install but > this was repeatedly rejected on the grounds that it was pandering to > newbies and not the kind of automation that should be in Arch. Now > instead we have something that is built in to the distro, not merely > something you can install from the CD if you want it!
Oh, that is new for me. Perhaps i missed this discussion because i never have had the same success with hwd as with hwdetect. > I see the devs still remaining tight-lipped on my follow-up questions, > I'm sure a lot of us would really like to know why the decision has been > made to do this with hwdetect. > > Thanks again for your comments Atilla, it is nice to have a fresh > perspective of what makes it good. Nice to hear and i can say the same that you shows me another perspective of it too. Only one thing: your version to spell my first name looks more as perhaps the gothically version of it. -)) But please don't misunderstood me this is more a joke because i don't like it to emend you or anyone else. See you, Attila _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
