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Skribent: Svante Signell
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Emne: Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities
On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 17:43 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 04/01/2016 17:32, Svante Signell a écrit :


> Just an idea: Would it be possible to detect the hardware of each computer
> being installed on and after that install the needed modules? Preferably the
> modules should not be located on /usr, currently they are under /lib.

>      I don't understand the repulsion towards having the modules in
> /usr/lib. What difference does it make? None, unless you want the three
> following conditions: no initramfs, /usr being a mountpoint, some
> drivers and filesystems compiled in the kernel, but missing just the one
> for /usr. You've got to work pretty hard to fulfill these conditions.


Well, the important part of my question was: "Would it be possible to detect the
hardware of each computer being installed on and after that install the needed
modules?"

Where the modules are located is very much under discussion here and on debian-
devel, see the "support for merged /usr in Debian" thread there. This is another
issue that could be discussed elsewhere here.