On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 16:45 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
On 21 April 2010 16:40, Richard Hughes hughsient@gmail.com wrote:
software needs to be installed for a given bit of hardware. It's really the kind of thing that needs to be added to udev as just a simple rule, and then enabled in gnome-packagekit.
Of course, the packages also need rpm provides. The hard bit is working out from a sysfs path "this is a GPS device" and then gpk can install any software that provides "hardwaresupport(gps)"
Except that the software for enabling the hardware is most likely different from the software to use the hardware.
As long as only front-end applications have those provides and drag in all the dependencies they need, it would probably be fine. Or you'd need to be able to install them as package sets.