On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Dave Jones wrote: > > I't like to request to make the hardlink stage kernel-devel does on every > > install optional. It takes a damn lot of time on my not-too-fast machines, > > I do not exactly care about the saved disk space, and given the rate of > > kernel changes in rawhide there are a lot of wasted CPU cycles there. > > only if you have a huge number of kernels installed, which shouldn't be the case. The only gain for hardlinks *is* when you have a lot of kernels installed. Also, I don't think yum uninstalls any kernels, so a machine which is updated reguarly can end up with a lot of kernels. Especially if smp and up kernels are present. Also, "normal" systems wouldn't need the kernel source. the stuff in /lib/modules should be enough to compile modules. But my problem i guess is mostly in that I've had a few incompletele kernel trees and couldn't compile from them anymore. The process is terribly slow on older hardware though. I would happy if the kernel rpms checked for the hardlinks rpm and skipped it when the rpm isnt installed. Paul -- "Happiness is never grand" --- Mustapha Mond, World Controller (Brave New World) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
