Re: 2.6.12 is in testing
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:26:55AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:56:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > We would only package those needed for the installer, we can list those in the
> > .udebs actually, there should be around a 100 or so. multiplied by around 50
> > flavours (maybe less) this brings us around 5000 packages.
> >
> > Well, we may have multiple flavours per arch, but there will definitively not
> > be in the 1000 modules involved here.
>
> Well doing a list of the modules in the current linux-image-2.6.12 on
> i386, and then deleting from the list sound, and netfilter and anything
> else obviously not needed and probably a few things that would be
> needed, I got down to just under 400 modules. Probably most
> architectures would have less. how one would automate doing such a
> filter I am not sure.
Ok.
> > Could be, on the other side, slower arches probably have less modules, and
> > this should be less of a problem.
>
> Well unless you have a 386/486 which is still pretty slow. :)
But they could benefit from some sort of dpkg-accelerator in general though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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