[Julien Cristau] > We did something like that in lenny (not in the Packages file, but > same basic idea), to get X to choose the right driver. It turns out > it's a pain to maintain, and doesn't really work all that well.
Why was it a pain to maintain? I can imagine it is a pain if there is no automatic way to extract the supported ids from the source code (like it is/was with X). But if it is possible to extract it automatically like is done with kernel modules, I believe it should not be too hard. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100616202354.gi15...@login2.uio.no