Ticket #613 (closed enhancement: fixed)
recommend debathena-standard automatically if laptop-detect
Reported by: | geofft | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | low | Milestone: | The Distant Future |
Component: | installer | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
Upstream bug: |
Description
There's a program named laptop-detect, often installed automatically on Debian and Ubuntu systems, that will poke at DMI and guess whether it's running on a laptop. We should do something to the effect of
if [ -x /usr/sbin/laptop-detect ] && /usr/sbin/laptop-detect; then echo "Since you are running on a laptop, you should probably choose debathena-standard. fi
to make the installation UX better in the common case.
Alternatively, we could pick a heuristic based on whether the network connection looks permanent (e.g., wired) or not (e.g., wireless), by, like, asking NetworkManager or something, since you basically never want anything other than debathena-standard unless you have a reliable Internet connection.
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