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Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat breaks module builders



On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:31:06AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:15:09AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > I think your concerns are not well-founded.  If you have a sane build
> > system, then building them is as simple as a for loop.  Have look at the
> > way kernel-image-i386 is built if you don't understand what I'm talking
> > about.
> 
> Not everyone has a quad-Athlon 1.4GhZ. Some of us have to deal with
> shit-slow machines. On which 14 builds take a very, very long time.

Where did you get the number 14? The current number of flavours is 8.
Besides, which module package is so big that compiling it takes a very
very long time?
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