On Mar 27, 2005, Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We need the ability to install any or multiple kernel-*devel packages > in order to build modules against any target kernel version and > arch. Upgrade is never desired with kernel-*devel. I disagree. Having to clean up for up2date/yum/whatever because multiple kernels pile up as updates are released is already bad enough, but it's desirable because, if you removed the old kernel and the new one happened to break on your box, you're toast. I can't think of any such strong rationale for kernel*-devel. Sure, it may be convenient for a small fraction of the developer base, which is significantly smaller than the user base. IMHO kernel*-devel should upgrade just like any other package. The few people who would rather keep multiple kernel-devel packages are probably skilled enough to make the small configuration change needed to achieve their goal. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
