Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

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

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:56:58PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> Just in case anyone else was confused, I'm still in favor of having at
> least *one* precompiled kernel per-architecture, so no one *has* to
> compile a kernel,

i think everyone is in favour of that.

the issue is whether it's appropriate to have a dozen or so kernel-image
packages (and associated kernel-headers packages) per kernel version,
when one(*) will do.

(*) or whatever the minimum number is that will boot on all ia32 boxes.

craig
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