alsa-* moved to desktop

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:41:48PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>   <cjwatson> mtaylor: the reason we put that stuff in ubuntu-minimal is because alsa-* is needed for stability of hardware detection
>   <mtaylor> cjwatson: wow. really?
>   <cjwatson> mtaylor: all possible server profiles are by design supersets of minimal
>   <cjwatson> we certainly won't be offering anything that's less than that
>   <mtaylor> cjwatson: I would certainly expect them to be supersets of minimal
>   <cjwatson> I would like to see stuff organised such that we didn't need alsa-* in minimal for stability though
>   <mtaylor> I would agree.
>   <mtaylor> I can understand their existence there for that reason - but I would suggest that it's a bug in hardware detection that that is the case
>   <cjwatson> it's not as important as it used to be, actually
>   <cjwatson> it used to be that the installer was two-stage; after installing a minimal system, it rebooted to install everything else, and then dropped you into the final system without rebooting again
>   <cjwatson> so, if stuff like alsa-base that provides /etc/modprobe.d files and alsa-utils that provides udev rules weren't installed in the first pass, your first boot would be different from all the rest
>   <cjwatson> however, in dapper, we finally got the installer reorganised so that it could all operate in a single stage
>   <cjwatson> so I think there is now a case for moving alsa-* to desktop
>   <cjwatson> crimsun_: what do you think?
>   <crimsun_> cjwatson: agreed.

Agreed, thanks for summarizing for the list.

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 - mdz