[gentoo-dev] Re: debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-01-29 Thread Duncan
Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:06:58 +0100: > Duncan wrote: >> Mainstream kernel's default make install uses /sbin/installkernel if it >> exists, so I've been using it, invoking the kernel's make install from >> my own kernel scri

[gentoo-dev] Re: debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-01-29 Thread Duncan
Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:20:55 +0100: > I'd relax, removing from system doesn't make the package automagically > uninstall for everybody who has it. And running emerge --depclean > without --pretend, especially on produc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-01-28 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Duncan wrote: At minimum, I'd say make the usual BIG WARNING NOISES in the usual places, and probably still expect complaints. It may still be worth doing to cut down on system size... or not, depending on where the system size vs. inevitable complaints comes down. (FWIW, it's precisely this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-01-28 Thread Jan Kundrát
Duncan wrote: > Mainstream kernel's default make install uses /sbin/installkernel if it > exists, so I've been using it, invoking the kernel's make install from my > own kernel scripts. installkernel invokes mkboot... We (the docs team) have never suggested out users to run `make install` for v

[gentoo-dev] Re: debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-01-28 Thread Duncan
Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:23:18 -0500: > current debianutils is part of "system" and provides: > - installkernel > - mkboot > do people consider these things critical ? i dont know the last time i > personally needed/