Just so you all know - yes I do need the whole source code to compile my
drivers - also I do know that <most> people won't need the kernel-sourcecode
and that the headers will suffice but this isn't the case here. <most>
people won't be compiling drivers anyway. As for the convenience (it isn't
hard to put a link in.... etc) no it isn't but it is a time wasting pain in
the arse to find out where rpm puts all this rubbish - just because I use FC
doesn't mean I am endowed with special pyschic powers that mean I (end user)
automatically know what (you developer / packager) know and therefore it
isn't reasonable to assume that I know where to put the link - it takes time
to find this out and this is wasted time.
In order to save people the deadful inconvenience of downloading the kernel
source as opposed to the kernel headers you could just tell people that -
the kernel-sourcecode package still remains useful and a valuable time
saving resource.
I am detecting a degree of hostility from the posts I have received, a kind
of "if you don't do it our way get stuffed" attitude which is rather
unhelpful and rather charmless. I am guessing that if this is
representative of the powers that be in the FC development community that
the chances of the the kernel source code being put back in the distro are
rather slim at this point. In which case thanks very much for nothing, I'll
find another distro.
SA
From: Emmanuel Seyman <seyman(a)wanadoo.fr>
Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
<fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com>
To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
<fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kernel source code
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:26:08 +0200
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:42:54AM +0000, not disclosed wrote:
>
> What exactly is the problem with including kernel-sourcecode?
It's a huge file (30+ Mb?) that you are trying to force everybody
to download and that very few people need (even the people who
believe they need it aren't always right).
Teeling people to grab the kernel src.rpm solves this problem.
People who need the source still have, those who don't need it
can stop downloading it over and over again.
> It makes it easy to take someone else's driver and compile it against
your
You should not need the kernel source to recompile a driver.
> source, it makes it easy to nobble the source and recompile - I have
spent
> the last hour trying to install the source from
> the src rpm following the instructions in
>
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86/
???
This took me all of two minutes.
Emmanuel
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