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Summary: Review Request: lshw - Hardware lister
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251019
------- Additional Comments From terjeros@phys.ntnu.no 2007-08-13 15:04 EST -------
The problem is that the reported information will be highly inaccurate (and, on certain platforms like x86, not only incomplete but *different* from what you get as root) when lshw is run as normal user.
Agree, you should be root to run the tool consolehelper solves this.
Maybe I should add a warning in the GUI (like what you get when running the CLI as non-root user). What do others think?
A warning would be nice, however that's is feature request in lshw, is not critical for this review which is about inclusion in Fedora (let's not forget that).
I have added to lshw's SVN some drawings without logos and also "replacement" logos for intel, amd, powerpc (cf. http://dev.ezix.org/source/packages/artwork/nologo/ comments welcome).
Looks great, will include them when they are part of a proper release. Again: lshw works great without logs, this issue is not critical for this Fedora inclusion review.
as discussed earlier (cf. duplicate BR), lshw makes use of *both* sources (system's hwdata and bundled data files) so it always uses the most recent data. It'd be good to have Fedora's hwdata updated once a month but it's currently very old and updated infrequently.
In a perfect world hwdata would be updated every month, it's not so lshw must be included it's own data. Things might change and then we will adapt.
I may add an option (in the GUI) to download fresher files in the future and cache them in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/lshw (usually $HOME/.cache/lshw).
Nothing stop you, it's your software, however it outside the scope of this review.