On dim, 2005-11-13 at 20:28 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 13 November 2005 08:16, Sven Luther wrote:
> > That is less than 6MB of stuff, hardly "heavy". A single kernel flavour
> > is double that for example.
> 
> That is exactly why we include only one kernel image on i386 netinst CD 
> images.
> If we'd follow the suggestion to support both yaird and initramfs-tools 
> we'd have to include both perl and python in base installations. This is 
> 8MB (package size; installed size is a lot larger) in total and IMO not 
> something to be happy about, and not only from a d-i point of view.

> waldi: Why is mklibs-copy needed?

In Ubuntu we're not using mklibs, we use ldd and sed instead.  If this
behaviour can be restored, we can drop the python dep.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey


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