On 2004-02-24, Colin Watson penned: >> >> Well, not necessarily "better", but the simpler thing to do is just >> not use apt and Debian's packages for kernel management. Instead, >> manage that yourself, especially if you recompile your own kernel >> anyway. I'll be flamed for going against the "Debian Way", but I >> have yet to see a meaningful advantage to handling the kernel in the >> "Debian Way", > > I've always thought the whole "Debian Way" business was faintly > ridiculous anyway. If it works for you, use it, but we've always > supported people rolling their own, even when it'd be convenient to do > otherwise (e.g. no dependencies from normal binaries on kernel-image > packages).
And thank you for that! Maybe I'm just lazy, but I've never seen reason to go beyond the generic linux kernel compile instructions. (I *have* moved to getting the source from debian, though.) > "Debian Way" always sounded a bit too religious for me. :-) If there's > such a thing at all, then it's probably choice. I think of the "debian way" as open, free as in freedom, and without profit motive. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
