David Kimdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > This "hack" will be fixed as boot-floppies is deprecated with the post > > woody release. What's the point of putting it into policy? > > Only reason is that this is something we obviously needed to do in the > past, so it is reasonable to expect the need in the future. Better to have > a clean way of getting what we want.
Well, the clean way is the udebs we use in debian-installer. > > > - 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... > > hmm, maybe it is just me then. I think the udebs are inelegant. In binary > form they are used by very few people (true d-i at install time needs to > download binaries, but I'd suggest they all get built when the boot disks > are created). They can't be installed on a normal Debian system. > > I see that we have a situation where we have created some specialized > handling of certain packages. If we can find a way to generalize that > handling so that it will be useful to more people I'd call that a win. > That is what I am proposing. No, you're proposing making the debian-installer effort more difficult, in the name of some kind of wierd abstract "elegance", the only benefits of which are aesthetic. At least, that's as far as I can tell. I guess I'd wanna hear Joey Hess weigh in, because I'm not involved in the debian-installer effort. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
