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Re: i386 flavors rearrange?



On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> 
> My idea here, which I think would be pretty easy to implement, would
> be to change around the flavors a bit.  The default "flavor" would use
> the -idepci kernel rather than the "vanilla" kernel.  Vanilla should
> be renamed "full", and the compact renamed "scsi".  "ide" should
> (IMHO) be renamed back to "udma66".

I agree in principle.  However, I wouldn't do it by changing the kernel
flavours.  This will break people's systems.  It's much better to
rearrange the disks-i386 directory so that the compact flavour is the
default and the vanilla flavour sits in a subdirectory.
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