Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:34:47PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 03:56:12PM +0000, Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote:
> > For what it's worth, though, the base section is pretty much
> > obsolete as a specification of what's in base; the actual definition
> > nowadays is "whatever debootstrap installs".
>
> What's the distinction here? The old base system images, vs. a more
> dynamic installation process?
Yes, plus that base varies between architectures while section overrides
are (currently) static across all overrides, and you really wanted to
categorize things in base down into sections too. Basically the base
section was just an idea whose time had passed.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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