[debian-edu-commits] r78703 - trunk/src/hw-support-handler

[pere at alioth.debian.org]

Author: pere
Date: 2013-01-11 10:44:49 +0000 (Fri, 11 Jan 2013)
New Revision: 78703

Modified:
   trunk/src/hw-support-handler/README
Log:
A note on the impact.

Modified: trunk/src/hw-support-handler/README
===================================================================
--- trunk/src/hw-support-handler/README	2013-01-11 10:37:02 UTC (rev 78702)
+++ trunk/src/hw-support-handler/README	2013-01-11 10:44:49 UTC (rev 78703)
@@ -111,6 +111,15 @@
 and
 <URL: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-q-third-party-driver-installation >.
 
+This system could be used directly by debian-installer to figure out
+what packages to install, as the Packages file is available for
+parsing there.  It will work for both deb and udeb packages.
+
+It will make the Packages file slightly larger.  Based on counts from
+Ubuntu Quantal (around 25 packages) and the current discover-data info
+(12 USB related packages, not sure about the PCI related packages), it
+will probably affect less than 100 packages in the Debian archive.
+
 The Madriva implementation
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