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Re: Removing boot loaders from debootstrap?



Steve Langasek wrote:
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> > > Whatever d-i needs is basically fine.
> 
> > Well, I think it's kinda ugly to install delo on a mipsel sub-arch
> > which doesn't need it at all because it has its own boot loader.  How
> > do people from other arch think about this?  I intend to request
> > removal from delo from debootstrap, but maybe we should do the same
> > for other bootloaders.
> 
> If d-i were responsible for installing bootloaders, debootstrap probably
> wouldn't have been broken on alpha for beta3.  Even though there are no
> plans to change aboot's dependencies further, and it's currently the
> only bootloader for alpha that's packaged for Debian, I still think
> leaving bootloading solely to d-i is a good idea.

It's also better for chroots, where bootloaders are normally useless
and can cause harm.


Thiemo

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