[ Interjecting a little... ] Adrian wrote: > >Plus, having working and usable hfsprogs is still desirable because >Macs tend to have HFS partitions, independent of the bootloader. > >Another difference between Yaboot and hfsprogs is that the latter is >no longer part of unstable while hfsprogs is. Yaboot has to be maintained >manually and uploaded manually for each architecture where it is needed. >hfsprogs is maintained from a single source and automatically built by >the buildds. Yaboot has to live in "unrelease", hfsprogs can live in >"unstable". This means extra maintenance burden for me because no one >else would either be willing or have the necessary permissions to upload >to "unreleased". > >So, again, unless there are really compelling arguments for using Yaboot >or SILO except for personal preference, I do absolutely see no reason >why I should carry the additional maintenance burden for it.
Right. That's important. Similarly, we've been discussing removing support for lilo on x86. It's dead (again!) upstream and there's no good reason or motivation for us to continue working on it. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?
