On Jun 25, 2004, Aaron Bennett <aaron.bennett@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry also for coming late to this thread, but I'd like to endorse kernel-devel as well.
I'd like that too. There's no reason to keep headers around if I'm not going to build modules, and don't *want* to accidentally build modules.
It shouldn't contain full kernel sources, though (they're available elsewhere), only whatever is needed to build kernel modules.
This will not only save space, but also install time, since hardlinks will likely run faster if it only looks at the modules tree.
The only (minor) issue with splitting kernel-devel out of kernel is that up2date should probably be taught to not upgrade this package by default, otherwise you may end up being unable to build modules for the running kernel just because you up2dated your box to a newer kernel release, which brought in a new kernel-devel.
You would just need to reconfigure up2date to do an install instead of update, ie.:
pkgsToInstallNotUpdate=kernel;kernel-devel;
-- Brian Gerst
