Bug#341524: yaird: fails to upgrade from linux-2.4 to 2.6
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 12:17:25PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
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> > Maybe the best idea would be to have yaird as first default as now,
> > but have the dependencies install both, which would guarantee it
> > always works.
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> A better approach IMHO is to recommend (not depend on) alternative
> ramdisk tool than the one picked as default.
Well, with tools like aptitude, there is not much of a difference.
> initramfs-tools will pull in udev which is unwanted for some, and yaird
> will similarly pull in perl dependencies that is unwanted for some.
perl dependencies are hardly problematic, especially since we have perl-base,
altough it would be good to make yaird depend on perl-base only, but we
discussed this already. Udev might be more legitimate to not want though.
> Sure, both can be seen as weird complaints (I have had my fights with
> convincing the php4 maintainer to not depend on X11 by default when
This is also a sane complaint, we divided ocaml packages between the x version
and the nox stuff too.
> sanely avoidable), but I don't think disliking udev should force one to
> either recompile kernels or use equivs.
Yep, that makes sense. Too bad dependencies don't allow us to do something
more advanced.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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