Colin Watson wrote: > Do you think this is a good idea? I've always thought it's good for the > very time-consuming job of installing packages to take place in the > second stage, so that you get to reboot and find out whether your system > actually works as soon as possible; plus it gets us out of cdebconf > earlier so that we don't have to work out how to pass debconf questions > from packages you're installing through to cdebconf. > > (Ubuntu has pulled some base-config *questions* back to the first stage, > but not package installation ...) I'd like to at least explore the idea. It may be that the simplifications of removing a stage from the install process outweigh those problems. We'd no longer need to worry about the booted system missing a root password with daemons running, or about propigating mirror/cd selection/debconf priority to base-config, or about setting up a framebuffer console for base-config to run in. Also base-config would become more obviously a part of d-i and somewhat easier to test and so hopefully get more people working on it. -- see shy jo
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