Hardware - Whole lot of packages for installation

[jimtheplanner]

Hi Folks,

An interesting question I use Mageia 64 on my laptop and it works a treat however; I've just done a clean install after experimenting. My question is that although everything is up-to-date when I open up hardware from MCC it wants to load a whole load of additional packages - predominantly pulse stuff at I586 build. Should I install it? Do I need it? or should I just ignore it.

Best regards
Jim

[doktor5000]

Well, that depends. Do you use some 32bit applications, like Skype or Flashplayer 32bit or something the like? Then you need it.
As a sidenote, i think it also wants to install nspluginwrapper, but don't know where that comes from, as this has nothing to do with hardware support.

[jimtheplanner]

I guess what's throwing me here is that the updater does not require additional packages - It's happy. It's just when I open hardware from the MCC it want's to pull in additional packages. Is this correct or it it just a hardware button issue type thing?

I guess I'll go with it after all its all part of the learning cycle.....

[doktor5000]

I guess what's throwing me here is that the updater does not require additional packages - It's happy.

Well, that's the purpose of the updater, only updating installed packages.
And for the other part, there's a bugreport about it: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1430
Here it also wants to install ndspluginwrapper, but i don't need it.