Re: Bug#497230: [alpha] legacy and generic package descriptions

2008-11-16 Thread Matthew W. S. Bell
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 00:32 +0100, Matthew W. S. Bell wrote: Well, I still don't entirely know what the -legacy package is for nor what constitutes an Alpha Legacy Machine. Looking at the linux-2.6 Debian changelog it appears it may be something to do with MILO. Further investigation

Re: Bug#497230: [alpha] legacy and generic package descriptions

2008-11-16 Thread Brian Szymanski
That's, what, 5MB of space? It seems to me we have it backwards -- legacy should be the default, and folks on newer hardware can apt-get install the non-legacy kernel if they want to free up 5mb of physical memory. Or am I missing something? Matthew W. S. Bell wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 00:32

Re: Bug#497230: [alpha] legacy and generic package descriptions

2008-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:39:50AM -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote: That's, what, 5MB of space? It seems to me we have it backwards -- legacy should be the default, and folks on newer hardware can apt-get install the non-legacy kernel if they want to free up 5mb of physical memory. Or am I

Re: Bug#497230: [alpha] legacy and generic package descriptions

2008-11-16 Thread Brian Szymanski
Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:39:50AM -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote: That's, what, 5MB of space? It seems to me we have it backwards -- legacy should be the default, and folks on newer hardware can apt-get install the non-legacy kernel if they want to free up 5mb of