Comment 3 for bug 1124072

On 15/02/13 at 08:10 +0100, Franck Butelle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >From my point of view, I would prefer to have a -core (or -common)
> package with binaries, icons etc.
> and additional packages with kernels, filesystems (virtual machines) etc.
> this have the advantage to be able to benefit of the package system
> to take care of versions of filesystems etc. as well.
> And, moreover, it may be possible to give minimal packages and extended
> ones with specific filesystems.
>
> Well, this is just my preference.

The problem with that is that it would be a huge package whose content
cannot be easily rebuilt from source (the content of filesystems is not
generated by scripts AFAIK?). An alternative could be to provide a
"marionnet-downloader" package that downloads filesystems and kernels at
installation time (similarly to what is done with the proprietary flash
plugin).

Anyway, my first goal is to get a working marionnet package, with a
script making it easy to download kernels/filesystems. There are still
some big blockers for that, such as https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1124055.

When that first goal is achieved, I will investigate how to provide
kernels and filesystems.

Lucas