Dear Colin, I have some comments on your `update-binfmts' proposal.
1. I like it :) 2. It should be a separate package because we don't want any way that the standard dpkg package depends on a kernel option that may be compiled out of a custom kernel. It could be named binfmt-support and modeled after the mime-support package that it resembles a lot. 3. In fact your proposal suggests a more general useful extension: integration of the kernel options in the package system! One could imagine a (virtual?) package for each module in the kernel that would be seen as installed or uninstalled depending on whether a certain option is compiled into the kernel. This way packages could depend on kernel modules being installed in a way that would interact well with recompilation of kernels and even permit effective selection of just the needed modules for a given installation. But then again this may be overloading the package system since there are quite a few kernel modules... Best regards, Kristoffer -- Kristoffer Høgsbro Rose, phd, prof.associé <http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose> addr. LIP, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon 7 phone +33(0)4 7272 8642, fax +33(0)4 7272 8080 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp f-p: A4D3 5BD7 3EC5 7CA2 924E D21D 126B B8E0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED],tug}.org>