Am 26.09.2011 18:32, schrieb Lennart Poettering: > My question to you: why are these modules built at boot time at all? Why > not at install time? Seems like the more appropriate time to me, given > that the set of kernel packages does not change during boot, but only at > install time. because akmods is used to build kernel-modules after the kernel was updated and the komd-package not - this was before vmxnet3 as example hardly needed for vmware because without network yum makes no fun another example are the nvidia-drivers - for normal users it is not acceptable have no GUI after update / reboot normally the kmod-packages are updated the same time as the kernel in stable repos, but you can not guarantee this for external repos everytime, especially that the mirror you catched is recent enough
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