On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:15:24PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:56:58PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
>> Just in case anyone else was confused, I'm still in favor of having at
>> least *one* precompiled kernel per-architecture, so no one *has* to
>> compile a kernel,
>
>i think everyone is in favour of that.
>
>the issue is whether it's appropriate to have a dozen or so kernel-image
>packages (and associated kernel-headers packages) per kernel version,
>when one(*) will do.
Don't forget the proliferation of kernel modules in that count. This
has already started with alsa recently, and I expect that more will
follow before too long:
alsa-modules-2.4.3-386
alsa-modules-2.4.3-586
alsa-modules-2.4.3-586tsc
alsa-modules-2.4.3-686
alsa-modules-2.4.3-686-smp
alsa-modules-2.4.3-k6
alsa-modules-2.4.3-k7
alsa-modules-2.4.3-pentium4
alsa-modules-2.4.3-pentiumiii
alsa-modules-2.4.3-pentiumiii-smp
kernel-headers-2.4.3
kernel-headers-2.4.3-386
kernel-headers-2.4.3-586
kernel-headers-2.4.3-586tsc
kernel-headers-2.4.3-686
kernel-headers-2.4.3-686-smp
kernel-headers-2.4.3-k6
kernel-headers-2.4.3-k7
kernel-headers-2.4.3-pentium4
kernel-headers-2.4.3-sparc
kernel-image-2.4.3-386
kernel-image-2.4.3-586
kernel-image-2.4.3-586tsc
kernel-image-2.4.3-686
kernel-image-2.4.3-686-smp
kernel-image-2.4.3-k6
kernel-image-2.4.3-k7
kernel-image-2.4.3-pentium4
Regards,
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