Re: [9fans] running in AMDs simnow

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> sorry if it sounded that way, I did not meant that.
> It's just that as you once told me yourself, the fixes you make
> sometimes never end up in the default distribution, either because you
> forget or because as you point out below, it goes into contrib.
>
> What is the rationale between stuff going into contrib and stuff going
> into the distro anyway? If the 9load you made is the one allowing to
> boot machines that don't boot with the one on the iso, shouldn't yours
> go onto the iso so that newcomers benefit from it from the beginning?
> What am I missing here?

there's no rationale.

my use of contrib is mostly an unfortunate accident.  sometimes it takes
a while to get changes into the distribution.  i can, however put stuff in
contrib immediately.

sorry.

- erik