On Tuesday 31 March 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Why are we providing framebuffer drivers for a graphical installer? > That's insane too. As I reported earlier the added size to the initrd > for sound+speech synthesizer is 2MB.
Which is an increase by 1/6! The main issue for me is that it makes a switch to using G-I as default less possible as it increases the memory usage for the "not enough memory to run the graphical installer, but can fall back to the newt frontend" use case. > > I also wonder for what languages this proposed change will add speech > > synthesis support. > > af, bs, ca, cs, cy, de, el, en, eo, es, es-la, fi, fr, fr-be, grc, hbs, > hi, hr, hu, hy, hy-west, id, is, it, jbo, ku, la, lv, mk, nl, no, pl, > pt, pt-pt, ro, ru, sk, sq, sr, sv, sw, ta, tr, vi, zh, zhy, zh-yue. > > At a quite low cost because the espeak synthesizer is not based on > samples, and the quality is not so bad. That's quite good coverage. I do miss Japanese and Korean though. > I'm ok with separate accessibility images, but not with separate > accessibility CDs, because that's creating a ghetto. I would be against having an additional 14MB initrd on the regular CD images. For businesscard and netinst that would again lead to a disproportionate size increase and for CD1 it would push off too many important regular packages. However, having a 2MB _incremental_ initrd that is chainloaded only if a specific boot option is selected would be acceptable, especially if other accessibility additions were moved there as well. It's supposed to be one of the features of initramfs that you can chainload them. I guess someone should look into that. Adapting the D-I build system should be possible [1]. Question is how syslinux supports it. [1] Just unpack the additional udebs into a different tree while letting library reduction include both trees, as we already do for EXTRAUDEBS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
