depends: I have been caught with a non-bootable system a few times and its much easier to start from an existing config and go from there (After numerous disasters, I wont use genkernel - even if its supposedly ok these days)
A (very) few in-tree stuff still seems to want a kernel (vmware-modules?) - not sure what but these days I always keep the last two around as Ive been caught in the past. I also do an occasional ext package - sometimes they want kernel source code. So yes, on a basic, user system you dont need it. But do something out of the ordinary and its quite handy to keep the source code around... YMMV BillK On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:12 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Freitag, 27. April 2007, W.Kenworthy wrote: > > > > > rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only remove > > what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus one other > > "good" version as a backup - the number of times Ive had to roll > > back ... :) > > emm, no. Not dangerous at all. After you installed your kernel and the 3rd > party modules, you can safely remove the source-dir. There is nothing in it > that is needed anymore. And you don't keep old 'backup sources'. Backup > kernels in /boot are good enough... -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
