Scott Rohling wrote:
Hmmm.. getting rid of YaST .... :-)
I confess I'm not a big YaST fan so it doesn't seem a great loss.. (please
don't flog me - people rarely agree with me on this)
Congrats on getting rid of alsa!!
I don't want the s390x distro to depart so much from other platforms that it
becomes a financial (labor) burden -- but it's hard not to chuckle when you
see sound, usb, wireless, etc drivers being pulled in on a z.
I've never explored how the hardware driver world worked within Linux, but
an 'exclude' list based on hardware platform would be nice. (390x: sound=no
wireless=no, etc) It's probably much more complicated than that -
ignorance really is bliss...
I'm surprised a kernel configuration allows one to select USB, sound,
wireless etc. I've just been inspecting Kconfig files in a Fedora
kernel, and it _looks_ like USB should not be configurable.
Scott Rohling
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Marcy Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It's impossible to get rid of some of these things too. Sound drivers,
wireless, usb, pci utils, other things pre-req these type of things and
in the deleting them you get to a point that yast itself would have to
go too. Although I did manage to get rid of alsa!
Maybe the dependency appreciation needs improvement. RPM support %ifarch
to allow architecture-dependent selection and configuration.
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John
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