Re: should I orphan linux-wlan-ng?

[Attila SZALAY <sasa@debian.org>]

Hi All!

On 2003 Mar 24, Eric Dorland wrote:
> Joey, you're not crazy. apt-src is an excellent tool and in my opinion
> a much better way of doing things than source packages. So keep doing
> what you're doing, I'd be sorry to see it go away.

I'm like to compile my own kernel. I do this because I have some special patch
(tproxy for example) what I must aply. And I like to try experimental kernels too
(ie. 2.5.X).

But I want to use my dxr3 card, using alsa for sound, using lmsensors for checking
health of my computer.

So, what I do?

I compile the kernel with make-kpkg.

And then I compile the extra modules with make-kpkg too. It's set the include
path correctly, and so on.
No other tools do this.

But if I want to use it, the modules must be in /usr/src/modules directory.

And what the sources packages do? Uncompress the files into this directory.

So, when we talk about _kernel_ _modules_ I deeply need source packages.
But not in other situations.

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