Re: Move xpad in kernel-modules ?

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On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 3:32 PM Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Marcelo Ricardo Leitner schreef op wo 02-12-2020 om 17:11 [-0300]:
> > Maybe, then taking it to the extreme, less common modules can all have its
> > own rpm package ;-)
>
> Vague ideas like this crossed my mind too.
>
> The local build I just finished for v5.9.12 generated less than 4000 modules.

We already do this in the packaging virtually.  You don't need 4000
kmod RPMs.  Every module gets a Provides: kmod(<module>.ko) listed in
whatever RPM it happens to be in.  Very few packages in userspace take
advantage of this granularity.

josh

> Currently there seem to be over 6000 texlive packages. (Quick and dirty
> measurements, sorry.) So splitting the  kernel into an absurd number of
> packages for (obscure) modules isn't a no-no on principle.
>
> (See https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/FedoraTexliveFailure for
> an eloquent argument how reasonable decisions can lead to unreasonable
> outcomes in the case of Fedora's handling of texlive packages. Note that my
> laptop has currently one texlive package installed. Does that benefit me more
> than the overhead of its gazillion packages at each dnf interaction?)
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Paul Bolle
>
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