From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 14:14:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Typo X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/9ad1949f6bcfa34ecfad5ebab0b1c7bd385b1583 Typo --- diff --git a/blog/data/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.txt b/blog/data/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.txt index 7996751d18..9672da89bc 100644 --- a/blog/data/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.txt +++ b/blog/data/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Title: Why isn't Linux desktops installing the hw support packages automatically? -Tags: english, +Tags: english, debian Date: 2013-01-09 09:20

One thing that annoys me with Debian and Linux distributions in @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ machine. When I plug in a LEGO Mindstorms NXT, it could suggest to automatically install the python-nxt, nbc and t2n packages I need to talk to it. When I plug in a Yubikey, it could propose the yubikey-personalization package. The information required to do this -is available, but no-one pulled all the pieces together yet. +is available, but no-one pulled all the pieces together yet.

Many years ago, I proposed to use the discover subsystem to implement this. The idea is fairly simple: @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ packages.

  • Show a message to the user proposing to install the discovered package, and make it easy to install it.
  • - +

    I am not sure what the best way to implement this is, but my initial idea was to use dbus events to discover new hardware, the @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ version 2.1.2-6 is now in experimental.

    With this prototype in place, I can insert my Yubikey, and get this desktop notification to show up:

    - +

    For this prototype to be really useful, some way to install the proposed packages need to be implemented too.