On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:37:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > mean by "module builders [...] especially those outside Debian". The > > people from alsa who do not use Debian (How would they use a > > debian-package?) or debian-users who no debian-developers (= no > > @debian.org email-adress)? Pointers to documentation to enlighten me > > are welcome. > > I'm talking about people like VMWare, i.e., people who distribute binary > only modules.
Hello! Thanks, I see, they are needed. Now I'm behind a fat internet connection and was able to have a look at the packages for myself, wouldn't splitting out the common parts to a separat package be possible, or is it going to change which directories cannot be shared, and therefore be much work to maintain the splitting? kernel-headers-2.4.3-k7_2.4.3-1_i386.deb 3 MB kernel-headers-2.4.3_2.4.3-1_i386.deb 3 MB /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.3-k7/include/linux and /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.3-k7/include/config 934 KB (tar.gz) /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.3/include/linux 868 KB (tar.gz) cu andreas