Re: Why do we need a base *section*?
[Nicol_s Lichtmaier] said:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Vincent Renardias wrote:
> > If so, I think we should 're-organise' base; that is adding in this
> > section ALL the packages used by the boot floppies, and moving somewhere
> > else packages NOT used in boot floppies (cfgtool comes to mind)...
>
> Why? What's the point in having all those packages together? Why should
> someone looking for somthing in the ftpsite care about if the package was
> included in the boot floppies? That makes no sense to me...
I agree. However, the "base" packages could be put into more appropriate
places, then the "base" directory could be populated with symlinks to all the
packages needed for "base".
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