-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:09:21 -0800 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Nope, it is more than a technical difference in language used, it > > is a different design goal between both. > > Um... the design goal is "create an initramfs that boots the user's > system." Any other design goals are almost completely irrelevant to > the user... The primary goal of all ramdisk tools os to provide a working ramdisk. But both of the major newer tools have _additional_ goals that may or may not hurt a possible "...no matter how weird setup" extension the that primary goal. Initramfs-tools has an additional goal of being loose: A generated image should be portable across different hardware (on same arch). This have a risk of the ramdisk getting too big for some (possibly archaic and irrelevant for Ubuntu, but not for Debian) arches or bootloaders. Yaird has an additional goal of being exact: uncertainty in resolving hardware should cause the tool to fail generating an image at all. This has a known limitation of requiring sysfs support - also on the host system when generating the ramdisk. I agree that additional goals are irrelevant to the user - so by default d-i should not ask. But if(!) those additional goals can hurt in some corner cases then it makes sense in an expert mode to provide a choice. - 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) iD8DBQFDe0F6n7DbMsAkQLgRAuReAJ4pb38ohn6FdQI5SnFbwpmcfYnyOQCgnD2x 6X1iBWtVKFtdenNe/FmW9VQ= =87kN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
