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Temat: Re: [devuan-dev] Notes - Devuan meet Sept 13/14 2017
On 09/14/2017 08:54 AM, Jaromil wrote:
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>> ## fsmithred
>>   * Working on cli refractainstaller to handle uefi. One script does
>>     both.

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> sounds like great news!!!
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> for ascii I'm wondering if we can drop the old d-i installer and use
> your live (and perhaps the minimal-live) instead. this would break
> some legacy usage I can imagine, but really the old system used by
> debian to make installers its an enormous hairball....
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> nothing really urgent perhaps but wondering what is your opinion since
> you seem to be the most knowledgeable on installer issues right now. I
> hope it works out to have d-i inside the live image, it would be
> really handy...
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I think dropping d-i would anger a lot of users and probably drive them
away. I don't know what is involved in making the installer isos, so I
can't estimate if it would be easier to create a replacement for d-i. It
does a lot of things that refractainstaller does not do.

fsr