* Robert Schiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
