Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > cdrom Install from a CD-ROM. > > nfs Install from an NFS server (not yet mounted). > > harddisk Install from a hard disk partition (not yet mounted). > > mounted Install from a filesystem which is already mounted. > > ftp Install using ftp. > > http Install using http:, ftp:, and file: URLs. > > Last I heard these ones where really quite bad and had problems with > pre-depends and others. Other than the 'not yet mounted' stuff apt largely > replaces all of them -- there are some features a very small number of > people need that only those methods provide but that is fairly rare.
Yes, well, you would say that, wouldn't you? Let's not get carried away with `apt' fervour, please. If there are known bugs or obsolescence with these methods fine, but purging them on the basis that the apt author ``has heard'' that they are bad and have problems and that features which they provide are (in the apt authors opinion) ``rarely needed'' strikes me as a stunningly bad idea. Remove them from the default choice list, if the problem is user confusion, by all means, but they should be available. -- James "Never trust trucks" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
