Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

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

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:48:02PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:


> I won't go below that as an SMP kernel is always required,

no it's not.

anyone running SMP ought to have enough of a clue to compile their own
kernel.

why should everyone else pay the price for their cluelessness?


> and the 686 flavour covers a very large chunk of the
> i386 userbase.

a 386 kernel covers all of the ia32 userbase.

craig

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