On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 13:18 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Nathaniel McCallum <nathaniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
