Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:23:18 -0500:
> current debianutils is part of "system" and provides: > - installkernel > - mkboot > do people consider these things critical ? i dont know the last time i > personally needed/wanted any of these ... Mainstream kernel's default make install uses /sbin/installkernel if it exists, so I've been using it, invoking the kernel's make install from my own kernel scripts. installkernel invokes mkboot... I'd guess the others are equally likely to be invoked in various custom scripts people have, figuring it's safe to depend on stuff in system. Of course, if they have custom scripts already, they can easily implement the additional customization, or simply add debianutils to their world file, given time... At minimum, I'd say make the usual BIG WARNING NOISES in the usual places, and probably still expect complaints. It may still be worth doing to cut down on system size... or not, depending on where the system size vs. inevitable complaints comes down. (FWIW, it's precisely this sort of early warning that's a big reason I read this group. One would think such early warnings would be even /more/ important to those running production systems on Gentoo, but...) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
