Jesse Keating wrote:
Back in December, I had made a change that blocked kernel-devel packages from winding up in the install media for the Fedora spin. I don't recall getting any push back at the time, but I've gotten at least one angry comment since then. So I'm putting it out for more discussion. Do we feel that the kernel-devel (5~megs) should be in the install media?
Yes please. There's always new hardware we don't support yet, so some people will need to build drivers just to get online and access the repos. If we ship it on the install media, it's much easier to distribute code that you're reasonably confident will work on a new install. If people have to hunt down matching kernel and kernel-devel rpms, it's a moving target for people working on these device drivers.
I'm not saying we should bend over backwards for out-of-tree drivers, but this is precisely the scenario that determines the first impression for someone trying this "Linux" thing on their shiny new bleeding-edge box, and it's pretty easy to accomodate.
-- Chris -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
