Re: Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

2010-04-04 Thread Obey Arthur Liu
Hi, If you actually want a student to look at your proposal, please put it on the wiki :) http://wiki.debian.org/gsoc Cheers Arthur On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Julian Andres Klode] >> Ubuntu developed a tool called 'jockey' for installing hardware >> drivers

Re: Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

2010-04-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Julian Andres Klode] > Ubuntu developed a tool called 'jockey' for installing hardware > drivers. There is an ITP for it in Bug #436722. Jockey is in my > opinion the best place to do something like this. I CCed Martin > Pitt, the developer of jockey (and quoted the remaining parts of the > email

Re: Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

2010-04-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Guillem Jover] > I've had this idea in my head for long, but as never found the time > to work on it, didn't feel appropriate to throw it to the wall and > expect someone else to implement it. Anyway, it seems to me it might > be a nice GSoC project, and not necessarily too complex. As I've my > p

Re: Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

2010-03-30 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:51:54PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > I've had this idea in my head for long, but as never found the time to > work on it, didn't feel appropriate to throw it to the wall and expect > someone else to implement it. Anyway, it seems to me it might be a nice > GSoC

Re: Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

2010-03-29 Thread Frans Pop
> 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 w

Re: Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

2010-03-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 23:51 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > I've had this idea in my head for long, but as never found the time to > work on it, didn't feel appropriate to throw it to the wall and expect > someone else to implement it. Anyway, it seems to me it might be a nice > GSoC project

Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

2010-03-29 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! I've had this idea in my head for long, but as never found the time to work on it, didn't feel appropriate to throw it to the wall and expect someone else to implement it. Anyway, it seems to me it might be a nice GSoC project, and not necessarily too complex. As I've my plate already full, I'