On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 12:38:39AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Martin Michlmayr] > > Well, I think it's kinda ugly to install delo on a mipsel sub-arch > > which doesn't need it at all because it has its own boot loader. > > How do people from other arch think about this? I intend to request > > removal from delo from debootstrap, but maybe we should do the same > > for other bootloaders. > > I believe debootstrap should not install boot loaders by default on > any arch. d-i is capable of installing extra packages as needed, and > because of this, I believe debootstrap should install as little as > possible.
Agreed. > But of course, the d-i boot loader installers need to be updated to > install the extra packages before debootstrap is updated to drop the > package. I'm not sure if this has happened on all archs yet. Indeed, code for this needs to be in a released d-i beta before debootstrap is updated, so that the currently released beta doesn't get broken by the removal. (On powerpc, yaboot-installer's now fixed for this, post-beta3, but there's no quik-installer yet so that has to stay where it is.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
