On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:41:36PM +0300, Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> wrote: > I was horrified to find out that the kernel is "Required". Yeah, I know how you feel. When I found out my motherboard _had_ to have resistors on it, I was pissed. I think it's a conspiracy :) > The official reason is "well, people compile kernels themselves". There's a reason it's official. Unless I'm missing something and all debian users other that myself have the same hardware, then yes, people will recompile the kernel. If I have a 386 with 4MB of RAM for routing and a new Quad Xeon 866 with 1GB of memory for rendering, I'm _not_ going to want the same kernel on both of them. > Well, people might compile fileutils themselves, too. That isn't a valid comparison. Maybe if ls and cat had to have processor support compiled in then it would be, but that isn't the case. > I think the packaging system has a big problem with understanding kernels. No offence, but you seem to have the problem. > What we need is some /etc/alternatives-like interface to kernels, and > have people installing kernels from .debs. They can still compile > themselves -- apt-get source, make config, make debian package and > install. That already exists. > Of course, that is not the only way to solve this problem. I fail to see the problem. -- Chris Welch <chaotic42@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ It's too nice a day to be stupid inside - Ren Hoek (Ren & Stimpy)
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