Re: gtk frontend status report

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

> > We are probably not going to have a floppy image from them (which
> > will involve having PIC packages for each library package, which is
> > a big burden) and if we are not going to need to fit on a floppy,
> > what is the point of making a udeb for ?
> 
> No, there is no way that they will fit on the floppy image. I tried to
> make pic files for all of them and reduce them by mklibs simultanously
> but that did not work out.

What does not work out in what way ?
 
> But there is still need for the udebs. I am basically thinking of two
> scenarios:
> 
> 1) Net Install: After finishing setting up your network, the libraries
> are pulled in by anna and the frontend can be changed.
> 
> 2) CD Install: The Disk Image on CD automatically detects the CD Rom
> drive and sets up anna to pull in the libraries without further user
> interaction. IMHO this would be the interesting thing for the
> debian-desktop project.
> 
> Since anna only handles udebs and the initial ramdisk is limited there
> is a need to package the prerequisite libraries into udebs.

I would personally rather have anna only bootstrap enough so that 
apt works, than trying to have packages to be turned into
udebs, or get anna working with installing debs if necessary.


regards,
	junichi