On 12/11/05, Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, but it's not uninstallable. You must build ndiswrapper-modules* > from the source package, and install ndiswrapper-utils* and > ndiswrapper-modules* in parallel. Alternatively, if the kernel team > ever gets around to doing their module packages, there should be a > package that provides prebuilt modules for the standard kernels > (previously offered by the ndiswrapper-modules-i386 package).
I had a feeling it was something like this. I'm afraid I have to disagree with your definition of installable, especially in the context of APT. This is the first time I have come across an APT package that requires you to manually build a dependency from source. I'm no package maintainer, but as a long time end user the whole point of APT to me is the fact that if I package is in there it will have all the dependencies there as well. What if I wanted to install this on a machine that I used as a pure router/firewall/wireless gateway? I certainly wouldn't want to install a complier etc. on it. And what happens if there is a patched kernel out - I have to recompile the modules again? Don't get me wrong, I have no problems compiling things on my desktop (I am running a custom kernel, alsa modules and a few other things here) but IMVHO this is most definitely a bug as far as APT is concerned.
