Jonathan Underwood wrote : > 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. :) Yet dkms is currently the best way to distribute kernel module packages for lazy packagers like me :-D And (most of the time), users aren't pending for a 3rd party repository update in order to be able to update to the latest errata kernel, which is a good thing, and because of this many are willing to sacrifice the loss of disk space from gcc and kernel-devel that it implies. There's (still) no solution sticking out as "best" for now :-/ Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) - Linux kernel 2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 Load : 2.24 1.66 0.96 -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
