Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (297 mails)

[Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>]

* Robert Schiele <rschiele@xxxxxxxxx> [Jan 22. 2007 19:54]:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:34:02PM +0100, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> > 
> > But you still don't know if to choose kernel-default or kernel-bigsmp ;-)
> 
> Right, but _this_ decission can never be done by the package resolver but will
> always require input from a hardware capabilities test program.

Actually, its a combination of both.

With 'hardware dependencies' (see http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Management/Dependencies/Hardware)
we are trying to move this kind of 'knowledge' away from the installer
into the package.
Of course, you still need a dependency resolver able to understand these
special dependencies. But we don't have to adapt YaST anymore everytime
a hardware dependant package changes.

In the future, we want to be able to access HAL capabilities via
dependencies like "HAL(gb_memory) >= 4" for kernel-bigsmp.

Klaus

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