Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: >> We could do that, but it couldn't reasonably form part of the standard >> debian-installer. A forked d-i doesn't do anyone any favours. > > I don't see why we couldn't put support for using contrib udebs for > things such as drivers in the standard d-i. The contrib udebs would > need to be in the contrib archive, and they obviously couldn't go on the > standard CD, but they could be downloaded if needed (again, only if the > user assents to their use), or installed from a secondary CD or one of > the various other media that d-i can read from.
That would require certain parts of d-i (and hence certain parts of main) to rely upon the contents of contrib. We can't do that. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
