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Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive



Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> 
> > Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hello d-i peoples,
> >> 
> >> since we have partman now, I'm wondering if it is time to remove some
> >> unused packages from the archive. This will reduce the size of available
> >> packages for d-i and makes my bugs list smaller. :-)
> >> 
> >> I have an eye on the following packages:
> >> - lvmcfg
> >> - partconf
> >> - partitioner
> > 
> > partconf and partitioner are still in use for arm and mips.
> Eeeww... why was this?  I remember partman/libparted had trouble making DVH
> disklabels... was that the only reason for MIPS?

The other reason is that it is rather slow.

> What's the problem for
> arm?

Lack of support for several arm subarch partitioning schemes.


Thiemo



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