Re: [gentoo-dev] Latest Gentoo installcd lacks lsusb

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org>]

Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I may be totally wrong here (as usual)... But before I let it go, I
> think we require some more views regarding this matter.
> 
> lsusb is not included in latest installcd, I believe that determine
> available USB devices is important to bootstrap installation, in order
> to detect network card, ADSL modem, determine which USB mass storage
> exists and more.
> 
> Release engineering believes that as there is no dependency of libusb,
> lsusb should not be provided as it is not required for installation.
> 
> Ignoring comment#7, bug is available at:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195666
> 
> If you think lsusb is important or not important for installcd, please
> help explain why.

Seriously, wtf is your problem? Why do you keep challenging the decisions made 
by release engineering, first on bugs and then on the MLs when you don't get 
your way? Chris is the head of Release Engineering, which means he gets to make 
the decisions relevant to the install media. He's been doing it a long time, and 
there have been very few people that have disagreed with what he does.

The install CD is a *minimal* install medium. In very few cases (if any) is it 
absolutely necessary to be able to identify all USB devices attached to your 
system in order to do an install. If you are one of the few people who find it 
absolutely necessary to do so, you're absolutely free to use the LiveCD, which 
does have lsusb, and if it doesn't, it would be a handy thing to have on there, 
and you should file bug to have it included on the LiveCD *only*.

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer             Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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