> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:09:45 +0100 > Peter Whysall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> on Mon, Aug 11, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > >> > Is there a buzzword to reference? >> >> Yes. Portability. >> >> The same Debian Installer runs on 11 different architectures. Knoppix >> doesn't. >> >> If a decision was made to break the installer on platforms such as hppa >> and sparc in favour of superduper hardware detection on x86, I for one >> would be breaking out the torches and pitchforks. > > Why can't the installer ask what the CPU is and if it's an x86 then use > kudzu and if it isn't don't? Wouldn't that work on all platforms? Or > can't an x86 CPU be reliably detected? >
It might work. But it blows off the ideology of consistency. The best you (should) strive for is a manual intervention to use kudzu in lieu of the other available tools. Kind of like using bastille for security. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
