David Kimdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The purpose of this change is to give Debian a more elegant way of > handling reduced footprint debs. Rather than including > special-purpose binaries in the archive (the status quo), I suggest we > support hooks in source packages that produce size optimized versions. > > If this change is applied then the following hacks can be fixed: > > - remove the e2fsprogs-bf, amiga-fdisk-bf and the proposed > reiserfsprogs-bf packages from the archive. Instead the > boot-floppies build system would build these packages from source. > (Note that it may be too late to actually do this to woody > boot-floppies. We could save some space by building optimized > versions of every package that we use on boot-floppies, maybe this > makes sense.)
This "hack" will be fixed as boot-floppies is deprecated with the post woody release. What's the point of putting it into policy? > - remove udeb's from the archive. The debian-installer build system > will instead build the packages from source. Why is this such a great thing? udeb's live in their own tree. Requiring all these packages to be built at debian-installer build time seems to add undue headache to the the debian-boot folks and porters. I like that they are available separately in built form for testing and use... -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
