Hi, On 9/7/07, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06.09.2007 20:43, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > >>> The complexity of separately-packaged kernel modules is unnecessary, and the users' problems with upgrading when the modules are not built synchronously with the kernel will no longer be possible. > >> Same for dkms, as modules might break if the api changed. > > > > slightly less complex for dkms, because with dkms you don't have to > > deal with synchronously building the modules on the central build > > system. > > Yeah -- so we offload the trouble to the user. And that's not the right > thing to do IMHO. We should provide pre-compiled kernel-modules if we > want to ship kernel-modules. dkms optional for that that want it: sure. > > But the signals from FESCo are afaics: no kernel-modules at all. And I > think that's the right thing to do in the merged Fedora world. Ok. So why we are discussing this again and again creating many threads on fedora-devel mailing list? Why not to close this topic with "No Kmod Packages Allowed in Fedora Repository"? I think still something is going on that is preventing FESCO to directly come to conclusion of disallowing kernel module packages in fedora". Regards, Parag. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
