On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 09:18:31AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 03:57:56AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 11:34 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 11:23 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > [...] > > > > There are several possibilities to do this: > > > > * Change name of meta-package: > > > > - Breaks nothing > > > > - Needs manual intervention by anyone using it > > > > * Don't change the name: > > > > - Breaks some systems > > > > - No manual intervention by the rest > > > I'm wavering on this. I don't like the idea of simply renaming > > '686-bigmem' to '686', given there are a fair number of 686-class > > systems without PAE, and I don't think users with a Pentium M are going > > to expect that '486' is the right choice. > > Please read again what I wrote. Please provide 'where' and 'when'. > > The distinctions between these two flavours will be: > > 1. One processor (min 486) with 386 page tables (currently '486') > > 2. One or more processors with PAE page tables (currently '686-bigmem') > > Will not hold forever and you need to integrate the other architectures > into it. > > > How about naming them 'up' and 'smp-pae'? It'll be a pain to transition > > the metapackages, but then we should never have to go through this again > > when raising the minimum processor requirement. > > No, this will not help. See above. > > Bastian > > -- > There are certain things men must do to remain men. > -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4929.4 > A good thing to remain human, is willing to communicate with humans. Take time to explain why something is a good thing. Take even more time to explain why something is a bad thing. If the other side doesn't get the message, both sides should allow each other the freedom to do their thing. Groeten Geert Stappers -- > And is there a policy on top-posting vs. bottom-posting? Yes.
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