-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:28:38 -0500 Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. If I understand it correctly, ldd only correctly resolves libraries linked with glibc, and yaird includes a more generic tool - documented here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekonijn/yaird/yaird.html#shlibs I am aware that Debian mandates glibc linking, but perhaps the user choose to include local non-glibc binaries. I believe we should be kind enough to support that. Would it perhaps make sense to provide the yaird "findlibs" binary in a separate package for initramfs-tools to also use? (and no: findlibs do _not_ depend on perl as yaird is ;-) ) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDd9w+n7DbMsAkQLgRAh3DAJ93k2bt8CJQxy0leRJ7kh5auXFtRwCeO1MV f1kCazFdBf6bXP2j6jESGPM= =Qoxl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
