There seem to be two ways to get the subarchitecture in d-i, either run archdetect and take the part after the "/", or examine the debian-installer/kernel/subarchitecture deconf variable. Both methods are used variously. The debconf variable is in fact set by archdetect when it is configured. I wonder if we could get rid of one of these, since two ways to do it seems both confusing and bloat. I have patches for the powerpc and m68k bootloader installers, and base-installer, that switch them to using archdetect. Still need to patch main-menu and anna. Before I finish and check this in and deprecate the debconf template, does anyone see any reasons to keep these things using the template? The only reason I can think is overhead, perhaps the archdetect program is too slow in some situation, although for what it does, I doubt it. -- see shy jo
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