Christian PERRIER <bubu...@debian.org> writes: > Quoting Bjørn Mork (bj...@mork.no): > >> We can continue like this if you want. Or maybe you'd like to define >> your problem instead of your solution? > > I'm sorry to play this game, but have you noticed who sent this bug report?
Yes, which is all the more reason to expect a proper bug report. > Then, have you ever looked at the changelog of any D-I package? > > > In short, if Joey if doing this suggestion, I would be tempted to give > him a bit of credit for having good reasons to do it. Ha gave a few in > the bug report rationale as well as in the thread that happned just > befor ehe reported the bug. > > It's quite some time since I hadn't to build out-of-tree modules for > hardware support but my understanding is that this is made fairly easy > by a few tools *assuming one has a toolchain and the Linux kernel > headers installed*. Yes, it is easy. But so should installing additional, non-default, packages be. If it's not, then that's a real installer bug. (never mind lack of networking - the initial install had to use some sort of medium) > So, it's probably less overkill than it may seem at first glance to > imagine that installing headers by default may help in some cases. I hope and expect most Linux users never needing kernel headers. And if they do need them, then the headers should be pulled in by one of the -dkms packages. I do not think it is a good idea to encourage users or driver authors to keep drivers out of Debian. Bjørn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87txhz2g7r....@nemi.mork.no
