[arch-dev-public] [RFC] new package: hwids
Hi guys, I'd like to propose the addition of a new package, hwids, to [core]. The package would provide /usr/share/hwdata/{pci,usb}.ids and the upstream would be [0], maintained by Diego Elio Pettenò from Gentoo and yours truly. The purpose of this new package is as follows: * let the package manager keep the hwids databases up-to-date without having to update the {usb,pci}utils packages * drop update-* scripts from {usb,pci}utils as we don't want programs writing to /usr (and it would not be needed any longer as I expect to update the hwids package whenever the files change). * let packages where this makes sense, such as udev, depend on hwids rather than on {usb,pci}utils (which might one day allow us to move some stuff from [core] to [extra], and certainly out of [base]). Cheers, Tom [0]: https://github.com/Flameeyes/hwids
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
Hi guys,
I'd like to propose the addition of a new package, hwids, to [core].
The package would provide /usr/share/hwdata/{pci,usb}.ids and the upstream would be [0], maintained by Diego Elio Pettenò from Gentoo and yours truly.
+1
Am 20.05.2012 17:41, schrieb Dan McGee:
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
Hi guys,
I'd like to propose the addition of a new package, hwids, to [core].
The package would provide /usr/share/hwdata/{pci,usb}.ids and the upstream would be [0], maintained by Diego Elio Pettenò from Gentoo and yours truly. +1 +1
-- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
I'd like to propose the addition of a new package, hwids, to [core].
I put hwids+pciutils+usbutils in staging. I'll leave it in there for a few days to give people the chance to object. Cheers, Tom
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
I'd like to propose the addition of a new package, hwids, to [core].
I put hwids+pciutils+usbutils in staging. I'll leave it in there for a few days to give people the chance to object.
Packages now moved to [core]. @Tobias: nothnig in [core] now needs {usb,pci}utils so they can move out of base, and probably even to [extra] (but I'll leave that to you). Cheers, Tom
participants (3)
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Dan McGee
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Tobias Powalowski
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Tom Gundersen