Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:37:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> > mean by "module builders [...] especially those outside Debian". The
> > people from alsa who do not use Debian (How would they use a
> > debian-package?) or debian-users who no debian-developers (= no
> > @debian.org email-adress)? Pointers to documentation to enlighten me
> > are welcome.
> 
> I'm talking about people like VMWare, i.e., people who distribute binary
> only modules.

you're still failing to explain this point adequately.

what, exactly, is the difference between kernel-headers-2.4.2 and:

	kernel-headers-2.4.2-386
	kernel-headers-2.4.2-586
	kernel-headers-2.4.2-586tsc
	kernel-headers-2.4.2-686-smp
	kernel-headers-2.4.2-686
	kernel-headers-2.4.2-k6
	kernel-headers-2.4.2-k7
	kernel-headers-2.4.2-pentium4
	kernel-headers-2.4.2-pentiumiii
	kernel-headers-2.4.2-pentiumiii-smp

?

it's only one kernel, one source tree...so where do all these different
header files come from?  what's the point of them?  what do they provide
that just plain kernel-headers-2.4.2 doesn't provide?

craig

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