Bug#361180: Selecting 2.6 kernel when installing using 2.4 will break install

[Geert Stappers <stappers@debian.org>]

retitle 361180 base-installer: Selecting 2.6 kernel when installing using 2.4 will break install
severity 361180 normal
thanks

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:20:36PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
   <snip/> 
> If you'd just done a default installation instead of choosing expert mode, 
> none of this would have happened. However, Thanks for staying with this 
> as it has laid bare something we should not allow users to do.

My opinion:

  This bugreport made an "expert" become more expert 


> 
> Cheers,
> FJP
> 
> Note for resolution.
> There are two issues here:
> - We should probably no longer allow selection of a 2.4 kernel when
>   running 2.6 and vice versa.
> - We should probably not allow apt-install to remove packages that are
>   installed.

My Emotional point of view:
 Blocking doing stupid things will block doing smart things.

My Rational point of view:
 Let it go


Cheers
Geert Stappers