On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:41:21PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:21:39 +0100 > Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > Does the scheme proposed by the kernel team make this possible? > > If the scheme includes the plan for module-building summarized by Sven > [1] then I believe the answer is no. > > If instead the scheme includes the adjusted[3] plan for module-building > [2] then I believe the answer is yes.
Ok, it seems Jonas knows how to do this better than everyone, and also resorted to insulting me, i guess i was wrong on these issues, and i hope him big luck in fixing the kernel packages the way he and Manoj want them. Jonas, the way you spoke to me is unexcusable, and i can't work with you in these conditions, please don't adress me again in the near future. Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
