Re: 5/16/2007 Broken upgrade paths in F7

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On 17/05/07, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> /me resists the urge to ask why Fedora doesn't move to using dkms for
> kernel modules. Yes, I know, Fedora is primarily a binary
> distribution. The packaging of kernel modules that Mathias has been
> doing for freshrpms with dkms is living testament to the ease of that
> approach though. Oh dear, I didn't resist the urge.

Because we will not assume our end users have full toolchains and kernel
devel environments simply to get a driver installed.

Yes I realize.. Fedora isn't gentoo... hence i was resisting the urge. :)

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