Use debtags to locate hardware related packages?

Benjamin Mesing bensmail at gmx.net
Thu Jan 10 20:20:37 UTC 2013


> For this to work, I believe we must be able to tag packages with PCI and
> USB IDs.  Perhaps something like hardware::usb::1d6b:0001 for packages
> handling the USB device with vendor ID 1d6b and model ID 0001, and
> hardware::pci::8086:1077 for packages handling the PCI device with
> vendor ID 8086 and model ID 1077.
> 
> Are you interested in creating such tags?

I do not think, this is a good idea. Tags are mainly aimed to be used by
humans (directly or indirectly). Creating such technical tags (and lots
of them) would not work well with the tagging approach and totally bloat
the tagging database.

Best regards

Ben





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