On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 13:18 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Nathaniel McCallum
<nathaniel(a)natemccallum.com> said:
> With this approach, you have lost a critical feature: the ability for
> you to change your hardware (or move the software bits to a different
> computer) and have everything automatically work.
That has been the case off and on for a long time, with kernels and
glibc split for i386/i686, and then kernels for PAE. Old hardware is
always going to fall off the tail.
It isn't like the packages are going to be removed, and they'll probably
not get any less testing than they do today. Also, since VESA will
still be included, it should work on most any hardware.
Sure. To be blunt: I'm in support of the move, I just want to make sure
we think about the case of hardware changes and not boot to an unusable
system...
Nathaniel