On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:21:39AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > 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.
At the cost of breaking the official kernel images ? > Does the scheme proposed by the kernel team make this possible? I don't care what happens to user built packages, i just want Manoj to not break the official kernels. And yes, i believe that there is no reason why the kernel-source package built by the user should not provide this symlink, or better yet the source symlink, don't you think. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
