On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: > I'd really appreciate fewer [image build tools] rather than more tools.
This has been a topic of discussion since at least 2009 and probably earlier. Since then the problem has gotten worse, not better. Of course, it didn't help that the live-* packages were forced to use the live-* namespace even though they can build more than just live images, presumably people assumed they had to create more tools. More recently there was a talk on this topic at DebConf15. Since DebConf it has only gotten worse, there is live-build-ng and also Joey Hess' propellor software gained the ability to create disk images. https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/meeting/246/creating-bootable-debian-images/ http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/propelling_disk_images/ I believe that due to the nature of image build tools, their number is probably only ever going to grow, not shrink. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
