On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 17:03 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Package: base-installer > Severity: normal > > The CD images include linux-headers packages, but d-i does not install > these by default. I think that it should, so that if the user needs > to build out of tree kernel modules they don't need to jump through > the additional hoops of learning that Debian has separated kernel > headers and how to install them. Which distributions *don't* do that? > If we begin installing it by default, > users should come to just expect that they can build kernel modules from > source without doing anything more than a make, which will be a good > thing. Only if they also install a toolchain (whichever task that is). This should also be done by installing the matching metapackage (linux-headers-<flavour>) rather than the ABI-specific package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.
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