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Re: busybox in main



On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 08:42:00AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Maybe reserving disks-* for boot-floppies and creating a new install-* for
> debian-installer would be a good thing? If not, just s/install-/disks-/g.
> 
> Calling them udebs might be helpful to avoid naming conflicts in the pool.
> Probably _something_ is necessary to avoid naming conflicts in the pool
> at any rate, if not .udeb, then...?

I'm of the opinion that udeb and install-<arch> are both very good
ideas, FWIW.

> > The release notes should go in a regular debian package, as far as I'm
> > concerned. There is no point in using a udeb unless we want to install
> > the release notes onto the installer for some reason.
> 
> Wouldn't it be useful to be able to read the release notes before/while
> you install?

I'd guess that would have to stay byhand then...

Dan

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