Re: Using linuxconf
You (Shaya Potter) wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > no, that's not what i'm implying at all.
> >
> > what i'm directly stating is that, according to the linuxconf docs, it
> > takes control of the system at a very early stage and *replaces* the
> > existing boot scripts.
>
> Maybe what we can do is say by the time debian 1.4 or 1.5 comes around
> linuxconf will be the debian way of booting. This way we can have the
> policy manual state that this will be the way of doing things. Also,
> this gives the maintainers plenty of time to make thier packages work
> with linuxconf.
No, the linuxconf way of booting the system is completely incompatible
with what we do now, AND it makes upgrading impossible. Everything is
piled together in one big bootup script, impossible to upgrade
automatically.
If you want it, fix linuxconf to work with Debian.
Mike.
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