[Bug 251019] Review Request: lshw - Hardware lister

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Summary: Review Request: lshw - Hardware lister


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251019





------- Additional Comments From terjeros at 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.

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