On 2010-11-05, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > On 11/03/2010 01:57 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: >> then, a few >> months before the release, we start getting suggestions to add this or >> that fancy new thingy.... > Do you consider that WPA support is a "fancy new thing" ???
You're free to do a play on his words, of course. From the point of d-i development it would be a new feature, yes. > With all due respect, I believe that my favorite distribution not having > support for such an old technology would be quite lame. That's the kind > of things that makes people go the Ubuntu way or more generally think > that Debian is not adapted for their desktop use (and in that case, I > would agree...). Ubuntu's alternate installer doesn't support it neither. It only applies to the netinst case, too, which Ubuntu doesn't offer as prominently. (Ok, if we offer it prominently might be another question but Ubuntu does do their QA mainly on the ISOs they generate.) And then, very very useful to pressure others with the "this will cause people to use Ubuntu" in a corner case that's only interesting to professional users anyway, who know what to choose. For me netinst over wired network is perfectly fine because I normally use PXE along with it, which does not work over WPA encrypted networks anyway. > Whatever path will be taken (hide the functionality in the expert mode, > or have an unofficial ISO), as long as it's there, I think it's fine. I > sincerely hope a solution will be found, I guess you need to get *your* act together then, and get a clean solution for it, propose that to be merged and maybe get it in for now or for wheezy. Whining on a mailinglist isn't overly helpful. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnida9v0.3vj.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de
