On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:26:55AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:56:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > We would only package those needed for the installer, we can list those in > > the > > .udebs actually, there should be around a 100 or so. multiplied by around 50 > > flavours (maybe less) this brings us around 5000 packages. > > > > Well, we may have multiple flavours per arch, but there will definitively > > not > > be in the 1000 modules involved here. > > Well doing a list of the modules in the current linux-image-2.6.12 on > i386, and then deleting from the list sound, and netfilter and anything > else obviously not needed and probably a few things that would be > needed, I got down to just under 400 modules. Probably most > architectures would have less. how one would automate doing such a > filter I am not sure.
Ok. > > Could be, on the other side, slower arches probably have less modules, and > > this should be less of a problem. > > Well unless you have a 386/486 which is still pretty slow. :) But they could benefit from some sort of dpkg-accelerator in general though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
