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Re: moving archdetect functionality to libd-i



[Colin Watson]
> Because then I have to create an archdetect.deb in addition to a
> kbd-chooser.deb,

Why would you need to create an archdetect.deb?

> and (given the individually small but cumulative cost of additional
> packages) this seems wasteful to me when it could just as easily be
> a library call. After all, the guts of archdetect are already
> implemented in C, so when calling them from C one might as well not
> have to go through another process.

Is this to provide subarch detection in the installed system in
addition to the subarch detection available in d-i?  If so, perhaps it
would be OK with a standalone program to solve #238687?



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