Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer
On dim, 2005-11-13 at 20:28 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 13 November 2005 08:16, Sven Luther wrote:
> > That is less than 6MB of stuff, hardly "heavy". A single kernel flavour
> > is double that for example.
>
> That is exactly why we include only one kernel image on i386 netinst CD
> images.
> If we'd follow the suggestion to support both yaird and initramfs-tools
> we'd have to include both perl and python in base installations. This is
> 8MB (package size; installed size is a lot larger) in total and IMO not
> something to be happy about, and not only from a d-i point of view.
> waldi: Why is mklibs-copy needed?
In Ubuntu we're not using mklibs, we use ldd and sed instead. If this
behaviour can be restored, we can drop the python dep.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
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