[Pkg-bluetooth-discuss] Re: announcing bluetooth maintainers group

[Gustavo Franco]

On 7/13/06, Filippo Giunchedi <filippo at esaurito.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:47:39PM +0000, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> > Now the news... I've been working on gnome-tasksel port to gtk+2 and
> > uploaded libnotify python bindings for our archive. I want to write a
> > third tool, that based on HAL will suggest some more tasks to the user
> > install, so bluetooth would be a interesting use case, IMHO.
>
> great work!

thanks :)

> >
> > The idea here is that isn't necessary bundle bluetooth, scanner and
> > $foo support with the desktop environment task. In the first boot if
> > the user plug his scanner that third tool can popup (using libnotify)
> > suggesting the scanner task install. If there's a bluetooth device,
> > same deal. You can ask "well, if there's a bluetooth device, why not
> > do that during the install? The scanner thing is different, it needs
> > plugging". The answer is simple, there's no HAL in d-i.
> >
> > Closing, in pkg-bluetooth's side that would be good coordinate with
> > joeyh a new bluetooth support task. Just a set of packages that once
> > installed will support as much as possible bluetooth devices.
>
> there's a bluetooth-desktop metapackage, also Suggesting packages there might be
> of any help.
> Note that after the bluez-utils installation most stuff works out of the box
> (commandline-wise, that is, most stuff is in the kernel). Going to the desktop
> there's kdebluetooth and gnome-bluetooth (which is kinda unmaintained in debian
> and some unclear license issues which can be easily resolved IMO)
>

Oh, thanks for pointing out the bluetooth related metapackages
(bluetooth and bluetooth-desktop). That's the tasksel point. We can
get rid of the metapackages and the associated problems.

Joey, i suggest you add the "bluetooth-desktop" task, adding there:
bluez-utils, bluez-pin. Well, at this moment i don't think it will
hurt merge these two packages in desktop task (like we did with
printing support). We can split this stuff out of desktop task once i
finnish the suggestion feature work in gnome-tasksel and that other
tool.

Filippo, what about stuff like bluez-cups and others ?

regards,
-- stratus