> > > There's no reason why building a custom kernel should be considered to > > be any different from building, eg, a custom glibc. > > I'd bet good money on needing access to kernel source to build something > (typically a driver, e.g. for the NVidia and centrino drivers) you can't use kernel-sourcecode package for that, nor do you need it, so this part of your argument isn't correct. > or > switch on-off some options being a couple of orders of magnitude more > common than building a custom glibc. which is one shell command away via rpmbuild -bp .... you need to enter a few dozen shell commands to compile a kernel anyway, is one more such a big deal ?
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