Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 27 January 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Today while talking about the removal of laptop-detect from tasksel >> depends list, specially for s390, vorlon noticed that we'd need to >> change tasksel from arch all to arch any to make it possible. > > That should be avoided if at all possible.
Agreed too. That's why I thought more about it to find another solution. >> Thinking about it, I come up with following possible solution: >> >> tasksel: >> - change laptop-detect from a depends to a recommends > > IMO that makes sense anyway. I can change it. Joey, any objection? I'll change it tonight if you don't complain about it. > It should not be necessary to have laptop-detect installed on boxes that are > clearly _not_ laptops (like my hppa/sparc/amd64 box) just to be able to use > tasksel. tasksel should instead just default to "not a laptop" if > laptop-detect is not present. Yes. I think that we should make it installed in following arches: - i386 - amd64 - powerpc - sparc (http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/30/HNsparclaptop_1.html) - others? > Having it recommended means that it still _will_ be installed by default > when people install tasksel manually; we only need to make sure it is > installed when needed in D-I. > > Note: this means that laptop-detect will also need to be added in the > generate_d-i+k_list script in debian-cd as it will no longer be > automatically pulled onto CD1 by tasksel. Will do that as soon as we decide to go for this way. >> hw-detect: >> - install laptop-detect if available (probably a post-base-installer >> script) > > I disagree. > - hw-detect really only makes sense if you'd only install it when the > system is a laptop (i.e. if some kind of hardware detection actually > happens), but as we don't do that hw-detect is IMO not the right place > - even if hw-detect were the right component, a simple 'apt-install' would > still be better than a post-base-installer script > - as laptop-detect is only needed when tasksel is run, adding a pre-pkgsel.d > script to install it (only for arches that are supported by it) seems more > logical Makes sense. I'm still thinking which module would fit better to have this hook script. I thought about put it in hw-detect but your comments are really valid ones but I didn't come up with a better alternative. -- O T A V I O S A L V A D O R --------------------------------------------- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br --------------------------------------------- "Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
