On 4 September 2013 22:03, Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: base-installer > Severity: normal > > The CD images include linux-headers packages, but d-i does not install > these by default. I think that it should, so that if the user needs > to build out of tree kernel modules they don't need to jump through > the additional hoops of learning that Debian has separated kernel > headers and how to install them. If we begin installing it by default, > users should come to just expect that they can build kernel modules from > source without doing anything more than a make, which will be a good > thing.
I agree with Joey here. Imho gcc & linux-headers should be installed by default when a desktop-like installation/tasks are chosen. My latest ultra notebook doesn't have ethernet port and needs out-of-the-tree wifi drivers compiled. I fetched the tarball off github on my phone & transferred it to that notebook over USB and then compiled. I managed to compiled because I joyfully discovered that default Ubuntu installations do install gcc and linux-headers unconditionally. This was my first time experience where drivers didn't work and I really had no other connectivity options, which I discovered only after completing the installation. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
