Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

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Subject: Re: Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch
From: Anthony DeRobertis <aderobertis@metrics.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:48:11 -0500
Message-id: <3932631.zb4MBsc3O8@tao.metrics.net>
References: <20060307095358.GA20724@localhost.localdomain> <20060308223106.c46f391d.dr@jones.dk> <20060308230800.GA22116@localhost.localdomain> <Pine.LNX.4.63.0603082219130.3583@bobcat> <20060309093523.GC18323@tennyson.dodds.net> <Pine.LNX.4.63.0603092329480.4293@bobcat> <20060310081242.GA14595@localhost.localdomain>

Sven Luther wrote:

> That means that jonas's fear of breaking self-built kernels is vastly
> unfunded, and that he should remove those hacks, include a mention of
> the broken kernels in the README file, and maybe propose a fixed yaird
> to stable-proposed-updates or something.

yaird is not in stable.

> 
> Alternatively, we could propose a fixed kenrel to
> stable-proposed-update which removes the herbert-xu modular ide patch.

2.6.8 initrds are not, AFAIK, ever built with yaird.

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