Hi,

Pierre Habouzit, le Thu 30 Aug 2007 23:18:46 +0200, a écrit :
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:01:56PM +0000, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Sven Joachim, le Thu 09 Mar 2006 13:45:04 +0100, a écrit :
> > > (b) Failing that, move the loadlin package to the contrib section, see
> > >     sections 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 of the Policy Manual.
> > 
> > This would be _very_ unfortunate.
> 
> 
> > The problem is that in some circumstances, blind people _DO_ need
> > loadlin for being able to install/boot linux. That's one of the reason
> > why it is still provided on installation CDs (btw, Janos, could you at
> > last apply the patch I suggested for bug #338318?).
> 
>   Hmm, now that there is win32-loader, is this still needed for blind
> people or not ?

MS-DOS is a lot more accessible than windows, you know :)

> it seems yasm upstream has absolutly no will to include your patch,

What makes you believe that?  When I submitted some basic patches, they
indeed got refused for technical reasons and I couldn't yet take the
time to fix them.  But the ground goal (have tasm frontend support) is
clearly welcome by ustream.

Samuel

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