On Monday 07 November 2005 10:52, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>         That's silly. I have compiled a kernel image, I have the
>  sources lying around, and now I must compile a headers package
>  and install it, duplicating loads of files, just to  compile a
>  module? Why? Upstream Makefile already install the source and build
>  links, which work, why go out of our way to remove them to make the
>  end user install yet another package?

I agree with Manoj here: the user should have the option of having 
_either_ the full kernel sources installed _or_ the kernel headers 
package.
Does the scheme proposed by the kernel team make this possible?

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