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Subject:	Re: libusb-win32 auto-install?
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Dave Korn, le Mon 23 Apr 2007 02:43:41 +0100, a écrit :
>   Or you could follow the model of the ioperm package, which requires you to
> manually run "ioperm -i" to install the .sys file.
> 
Brian Dessent, le Sun 22 Apr 2007 18:44:50 -0700, a écrit :
> I think it would be very bad to install a (kernel-mode) driver by
> default without any action of the user just because they selected a
> package to install.
> 
> > Maybe I could ship two separate packages: one for the library and one
> > for the driver, and automatically install the driver at postinstall of
> > the second package.
> 
> That sounds ugly, why can't the user just run foo-config like every
> other package that requires configuration?

Currently, I'm indeed requiring the user to run /usr/sbin/libusb-install
by hand (and uninstall is automatically called on package removal).

So we should stay this way, ok.

Samuel

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