Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:

> not much:

> [eb@socrates eb]$ diff -rq /usr/local/src/linux-2.2.19/include /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19/include
> Only in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19/include: asm # symlink to asm-$arch
> Only in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19/include: config # directory: 2.2MB
> Only in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19/include/linux: autoconf.h
> Only in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19/include/linux: compile.h
> Only in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19/include/linux: modules

That's a directory with loads of stuff in it.  This is the important bit in
fact.  The rest are (mostly) really static.

> Only in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19/include/linux: modversions.h
> Only in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19/include/linux: version.h
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