On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 12:00 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > As far as I can see, the only downside to dkms modules is the > requirement for a build environment on the client machines. (Well, > that and the lack of a set of packaging guidelines. The build > environment requirement kept dkms out of consideration for Fedora > Extras kernel modules, a decision which I still find completely mind > boggling.) DKMS also adds another database that keeps track of the software you have installed. So instead of saying "please attach rpm -qa" so that you can look and see what kernel modules have been added, you also need to get the output of 'dkms list'. It also adds a whole new layer to how you get updates for the kernel modules beyond just "compile the same thing against a new kernel" Heck, why don't we also stop packaging perl modules as RPMs. I mean, there's CPAN, right? And there's now the cheeseshop + setuptools for python. Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
