On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:56:37PM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote: > hoi :) > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:07:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:17:10PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > > > - due to Sarge's official kernel being 2.4.x, we'll keep magicdev as the > > > default device mounting program for now, despite it's clearly inferior > > > to gnome-volume-manager. g-v-m depends on hal/dbus/udev, and would > > > also make optimal GNOME install depend on kernel 2.6. > > > > Notice that on powerpc, the official kernel is 2.6. Would it be possible to > > have it depends on g-v-m/udev on powerpc, and magicdev on the rest of it ? > > but depending on magicdev rules out g-v-m for those who choose to run > an 2.6 kernel on other arches anyway.
Well. > So I think that the current way of depending on magicdev | g-v-m is the > best solution for the time being. Can this not be made arch conditional ? I don't know how such alternatives live with arch conditional things. is this : magicdev | g-v-m [!powerpc], g-v-m | magicdev [powerpc] allowed ? Friendly, Sven Luther
