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Re: tasksel arch any? (Re: Bug#697890: iwconfig not in /sbin)



Joey,

am Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 11:47:17AM -0400 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
> Also, if we are going to depend on something linux-specific in a task,
> we could | depend on the freebsd equivilant too, and that should work
> with the task being arch all. If there is not a freebsd equivilant, we
> could | depend on something that documents how to do it the freebsd way. :P
> However, we mostly don't depend on things in tasks; we Recommend them. 
> And recommends don't care if it's not available on some architecture.

if we still had type-handling…

> Re #697868, I would much rather leave it to the maintainers of desktop
> environments (and/or Tech Ctte :P) to ensure that they have eg,
> necessary network-manager dependencies on appropriate architectures,
> rather than making tasksel need to track that. Reading that bug, the
> only reason task-gnome is depending on network-manager is to ensure it gets
> on CD#1. There are other ways to do that, particularly debian-cd's
> generate_di+k_list is appropriate since netcfg arranges for
> network-manager to be installed.

netcfg does not at all arrange for network-manager to be installed. It just
deals with it if it finds it post-install. Hence the decision to install it
still needs to be made properly by another bit of debian-installer. ;-)

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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