On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:32:38 -0800, Joshua Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> So the next time you break official kernel packages, talk to the
>> kernel-package maintainer _first_. I'll put a kludge in around the
>> fuckup in a future upload.
> It's not a major bug, dude. Nor is it breakage at all; it's a
> feature.
Ah. Some genius creates a image and header package of a kernel
version that can't be installed together without warnings, and
it is a feature? Could have fooled me.
> The build symlink is meant to allow out-of-tree modules to
> build correctly without having to add lots of KSRC=this and
> KERNEL_DIR=that to the make invocations.
So why not do it right, eh, duuuude?
> Unless you disagree...
I disagree with the sloppy execution.
In the past, the kernel folks used to ask for features, which
I have never been known to reject out of hand. No that I am againt
people tacking on features outside of kerel-package, if only they get
it right ...
manoj
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