Simon Lees schrieb:
On 8/28/19 5:41 PM, Martin Wilck wrote:
On Mon, 2019-08-26 at 17:50 +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
On Mon, 2019-08-26 at 17:01 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
For hardware specific packages there are special modalias Supplements. So if libzypp detects matching hardware it would automatically pull in those packages. There are also special tags for printer drivers¹ (in case there are such scanners attached to printers). Support for that was never properly implemented in openSUSE though AFAIK.
That would certainly be nice ...
I forgot the most important aspect, printers and scanners are often connected via the network and thus not reliably detectable. So, I don't think this would be worth the effort.
If your like me and even if its not connected to the network you generally leave it off until you actually use it which would likely lead to a change in zypper behavior on the one time you zypper up or dup with the printer switched on. So I tend to agree this is not a great idea for USB plug and play devices (unless someone wants to write a daemon to detect when a device is plugged in for the first time and suggest installing the driver through packagekit or something the way Windows has done for years)
The Fedora page I linked describes exactly that. So I suppose the work was done long ago. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.com/ SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer HRB 247165 (AG München) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org