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Now kernel-power has 4 major packages (needed for using):
kernel-power
kernel-power-flasher
kernel-power-modules
kernel-power-bootimg
and some more for development...

I have question: Why two packages are needed for flashing kernel? kernel-power only contains fiasco image (with packaged zImage) and kernel-power-flasher has only postinst script which flash that fiasco image (from package kernel-power) and then REMOVE fiasco image from rootfs. (Note that stock kernel has same process, kernel-power only copied kernel source package)

What do you think about merging kernel-power and kernel-power-flasher to one package kernel-power-flasher? (I will do not delete kernel-power package, I only mark it as dummy/transitional)

Positive on this change:
* you do not need to install kernel-power package
* when you want to reinstall/reflash kernel-power, you need only reinstall package kernel-power-flasher

Negative:
* packages which depends directly on kernel-power will must change dependences to kernel-power-flasher

But I will let kernel-power package in repository, but it will be empty (+ added dependency on kernel-power-flasher) - so this does not break last negative point.

So what do you think?
 

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