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Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat



On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:01:39PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:00:01PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > If we don't distribute them, why in hell are we breaking mirrors by
> > supporting them? Sounds dodgy to me.
> 
> So that they can compile them? If you don't understand why we should do
> that, then there's no point in us two arguing about it.

I can understand why you might say that that's a valid point, but IMHO, we
shouldn't fuck up current users (by overloading mirrors), just so we can
support LAZY users to compile something THAT IS NOT EVEN IN DEBIAN.

-- 
Daniel Stone
Linux Kernel Developer
daniel@kabuki.openfridge.net

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