Chris Waters wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > | 2.3.6. The base system > > ---------------------- > > > | > > | The base system is a minimum subset of the Debian GNU/Linux system that > > is > > installed before everything else on a new system. Thus, only very few > > | packages are allowed to go into the base system to keep the > > | required disk usage very small. > > > Most of these packages should have the priority value `required' or at > > least `important', and many of them will be tagged `essential' (see > > below). > > > > You must not place any packages into the `base' section before this has > > been discussed on the `debian-devel' mailing list and a consensus about > > > > doing that has been reached. > > > I considered making some change to say that debian-boot has control of what > > goes in there, but I don't think that's really necessary. > > "You must not place..." implies that you can, but if the boot-floppy > people are doing manual selection, I don't see how you can. I'd > strike that third paragraph completely. Unless it's aimed at the > boot-floppy people, and I'd hope that we'd grant them reasonable > discretion.
Hm, well, I don't necessarily think giving them discresion is bad, but I think we should at least think the idea over before amending policy to do so. Which is why I left that paragraph in. I can see value in keeping debian-devel as the place where such changes is discussed: these change have remifications on debian as a whole. -- see shy jo
