Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy
On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 01:46:06PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> Experienced Linux folk download from the horses mouth, but
> novices find being able to use dpkg-ftp or dft to get kernel
> sources very comforting. A deb file is justified since there are
> mechanisms in place to get .deb files to users as seamlessly as
> possible.
>
I ran into a novice the other day who couldn't seem to compile the kernel
successfully. After getting him to answer a few questions, it became
obvious that he was trying to use a packaged version (Red Hat in this case,
but that's not the point). Now as an experienced user, I have never even
attempted to compile a kernel using a kernel source package. So, I
enlightened the novice as to the "standard" way of getting and compiling
the kernel sources. The next day he wrote back a happy man.
The point: no matter how well-packaged it is, novices are going to have
problems with it. And we experienced users won't be able to help them.
One vote against having kernel source packages.
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