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Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat



On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:14:40PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:33:25AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:30:47PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > 
> > > Kernel-headers-2.4.2 is built with the default config file, and the
> > > other ones are built with their respective config files.
> > 
> > so, what's the difference between all the packages? they're the same
> > header files from the same kernel source tree, aren't they?
> 
> One file, composing of a few kilobytes, is an autogenerated header
> consisting of #define correctives enumerating the configuration.

Bullshit.  Why don't you do a diff instead of talking about something that
you have no idea about?
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