On Jun 08, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote: > In the same spirit, I'd like to throw an idea... could we decide that > base-files is the first package to be configured as part of the bootstrap > protocol and change base-files maintainer's scripts into statically linked > executables so that they can work even if we don't have the library loader > on the ABI-compliant path? It could be even easier: base-files could be unpacked once without running the maintainer scripts and then "reinstalled" again later as usual. > And creating the required symlinks would be done by those (standalone) > maintainer scripts... > > I don't know if we already have some rule/invariant in the configuration > order of the unpacked packages, but I doubt so. Indeed, this would be very simple and it has already been proposed. But somebody then complained that special-casing a package would violate the design contraints he self-imposed to his own image building tool, and as we all know every Debian maintainer can veto any systemic changes that they do not like. -- ciao, Marco
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