On 23 March 2012 17:00, Maarten Vanraes <[email protected]> wrote: > thanks for the explanations, i really appreciate this, it seems logical, > somehow, except maybe what i'm coming back to: > > mageia-gfxboot-theme is pulled by installer? how does that work? > > is this really required? or is this something that's somehow done in the > graphic installer? > > i mean, i didn't select graphic grub, i chose text-grub specifically. and > somehow during the choosePackages step, the mageia-gfxboot-theme is > automatically selected... > > this is the packages that's adding via extra dep and suggests, most of the > stuff... > > where can i find the code that is responsible for this, so i can try and fix > it?
we preselect it here so that it got installed early: http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/install/any.pm?revision=3532&view=markup because else it'll be automatically pulled later, adding a one package (or more) wait later: http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/bootloader.pm?revision=3581&view=markup just look mageia-gfxboot-theme Of course, that's OK for 99% of our users but for those manually selecting text lilo. That's a trade off: enforcing waiting for packages installation after all the other package installation so that a couple users can not have the bootsplash installed and select lilo or having a couple users unhappy BWe could not preselect > about firewall, perhaps it's possible to just include iptables, but set policy > on DROP incoming? shorewall seems a bit over the top... we configure shorewall, not iptables. > but, if summary isn't completed, you can't boot into it, wrt bootloader? so > firewall seems useless for that...? what is the rationale behind this? In the old days we let poeple choose the security level early then we automatically install & set up the firewall accordingly. Later the security choice was moved to the summary and security level number was reduced from to 3 (see msec or security::level) But since the default security level is 1 ("standard"), we automatically install the firewall anyway. For years.
