not disclosed wrote:
We need it for building drivers which aren't included in the fedora
distros - not everything in the world is rpm based. We also need it to
customize the kernels.
Did you miss the part about NOT NEEDING kernel source in order to build
modules against that kernel? FC2 and FC3 kernel provides headers that
are sufficient 99% of the time, while FC4 split that out into
kernel-devel which serves a similar purpose.
If you look at the 3rd party kernel module packages like nvidia or
vmware, they build against these headers.
Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com