Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-08-02 16:55 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> FWIW, removing bash from the list of essential packages (replacing it by
>> dash) is one of the release goals for squeeze [1].
> 
> Not really, the goal for squeeze is to install dash as /bin/sh by
> default.  Making bash non-essential is a different (and harder) task.

Thanks for clarification. I probably didn't follow the relevant
debian-develop threads carefully enough ;-)

>> It might be more worthwhile for all of us, if you help debian to
>> achieve the goal instead of yet another fork. ;-)
> 
> This will take at least one more release cycle, more likely two, if it
> is ever accomplished.  It is very hard to remove functionality from the
> set of essential packages.

So probably still better to help speed up that process instead of forking.

Cheers,
Johannes