spin kickstart/minimization cleanups

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 09:40 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
>
>> This looks like a good start.  I think the way this kind of thing
>> should work in general is that the system detects if you have the
>> hardware, and dynamically installs support for it.  We'd need some
>> database mapping things like USB ids to packages.  Networking is an
>> exception; we should include as many drivers/tools for
>> networking-related functionality as possible so that the system can be
>> bootstrapped.
>>
>> Basically: if you have a GPS chip, gypsy gets installed and runs.  If
>> you don't, it doesn't.
>
> I've been banging a gong about something like that for years; right now
> it's much too hard to know what you're supposed to do to make
> $RANDOM_GADGET that you just plugged in actually work, but we can hardly
> install the software for every USB device under the sun by default.
> There's a clear need for something like this. Really it's just a kind of
> widget that sits between udev and PackageKit, I think.

Dumb question.... Can't the usb printer autoinstall just be extended
to support other hardware? Based on usb/pci ids?

Peter