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From: Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Latest Gentoo installcd lacks lsusb
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:28:08
Message-Id: 9e0cf0bf0710141115g7edb24dau893e1e08f5c9df90@mail.gmail.com
1 Hello All,
2
3 I may be totally wrong here (as usual)... But before I let it go, I
4 think we require some more views regarding this matter.
5
6 lsusb is not included in latest installcd, I believe that determine
7 available USB devices is important to bootstrap installation, in order
8 to detect network card, ADSL modem, determine which USB mass storage
9 exists and more.
10
11 Release engineering believes that as there is no dependency of libusb,
12 lsusb should not be provided as it is not required for installation.
13
14 Ignoring comment#7, bug is available at:
15 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195666
16
17 If you think lsusb is important or not important for installcd, please
18 help explain why.
19
20 Best Regards,
21 Alon Bar-Lev.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Latest Gentoo installcd lacks lsusb Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>