> sorry if it sounded that way, I did not meant that. > It's just that as you once told me yourself, the fixes you make > sometimes never end up in the default distribution, either because you > forget or because as you point out below, it goes into contrib. > > What is the rationale between stuff going into contrib and stuff going > into the distro anyway? If the 9load you made is the one allowing to > boot machines that don't boot with the one on the iso, shouldn't yours > go onto the iso so that newcomers benefit from it from the beginning? > What am I missing here?
there's no rationale. my use of contrib is mostly an unfortunate accident. sometimes it takes a while to get changes into the distribution. i can, however put stuff in contrib immediately. sorry. - erik
