On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 04:20:00PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > kernel-source-<version> may not supply the same headers as > > kernel-headers-<version>, especially on non intel hardware. There > > fore the dependency in libc6-dev is correct. > > > > manoj > > The problems I saw were in installing a kernel-source package when you had > a header package and the symlinks in /usr/include are left pointing at the > kernel-header directory. This is not very nice when you have 2.0.29 kernel > headers and then install 2.0.32 kernel source.
And further, if you use for example OSS/Linux (I don't hafta anymore! <cheer> (hey, waiting for new OSS/Linux for devel kernels is annoying)) or similar programs, they will not work if you have 2.0.32 kernel-headers because the standard autoconf.h doesn't have the information OSS needs. Granted, OSS/Linux is an example of how NOT to write a driver for Linux, and OSS/Free is worse, but.
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