On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:57:02AM +0000, Samuel Thibault wrote: > 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 :)
Well, I absolutely don't know honestly, That's why I'm just asking. > > 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. Well, that was the impression I had when I spoke about this issue with sam (yasm maintainer). But if you feel it's not the case then well, that's good news. OTOH, loadlin still risks to be put in contrib because of that and that would suck. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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