Anas,
 I don't know the old hybrid ISOs problem, but from current mic2 code. I also 
find
we need not maintain syslinux in tools projects now.
 So we should remove it from devel:tools:building and Tools:Building, and 
cleanup
its spec file in MeeGo projects.
 Is it ok?

- jf.ding

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 06:06:23AM +0800, Nashif, Anas wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Kok, Auke-jan H <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>     On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Nashif, Anas <[email protected]>
>     wrote:
>     > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Jian-feng Ding 
> <[email protected]
>     >
>     > wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Auke,
>     >>  Because the syslinux is maintained in devel:tools:building, which need
>     to
>     >> support many
>     >> distros other than MeeGo. Just like mic2 and spectacle, etc.
>     >>
>     >> - jf.ding
>     >
>     > I doubt the distros we want to support do not support syslinux, is there
>     a
>     > reason why we want to force our version of the package on other distros?
> 
>     It also sounds like a recipe for trouble to replace e.g. SuSE's
>     bootloader with a half-baked MeeGo version.
> 
>     I can understand having a sane fallback version in the tools repo, but
>     then that shouldn't be the version we have in MeeGo. We really need to
>     push the btrfs features in 4.04 into MeeGo for instance...
> 
>     The best solution seems to just drop syslinux from devel:tools and
>     maintain a non-conflicted syslinux for MeeGo only. We definately don't
>     want unintended consequences from e.g. non-MeeGo changes to syslinux
>     affecting all MeeGo systems. Remember that this is a bootloader, not
>     just some random development tool.
> 
> 
> Yes, agree. If I remember correctly, the only reason we added syslinux back
> then was the support for hybrid ISOs few years back. Status of syslinux and
> other tools needs to always be evaluated in the tools repo and when something
> is not needed anymore it needs to be removed and the distro version needs to 
> be
> used.
> 
> Anas
>  
> 
> 
>     Auke
> 
> 
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