On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 23:08, Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 03:17, Lamar Owen wrote: > > > Oh, as another benchmark, the kernel itself is the 16th largest package on my > > system, massing 35MB (!!!!) (A BIG part of that is > > the /lib/modules/$version/build tree). > > The build directory could really be split off into a separate > sub-package so that only people who want to build modules against > running kernels need to install it. That, plus including something in it that would allow full arch-qualified "Requires: " in spec files would make many 3rd party packagers happier. For example with file-based dependencies: put the build/ directory and everything below it into a subpackage, and add a "build.$arch -> build" symlink in /lib/modules/$uname and make the new subpackage "own" the symlink.
