Re: What is a Kernel?

[Fredrik Liljegren <fredrik@liljegren.org>]

Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> writes:
> kernel-source-<ver> is the source used to build kernel-image-<ver>,
> which is not necessarily the same as the upstream kernel source.  The
> README.Debian in kernel-source-2.2.17 for example contains:

But why, then, is it a separate package, instead of just being the
source-packade of kernel-image, like it is for every other package?
People wanting to conpile their own kernels could just as easily run
"apt-get source kernel-image-<ver>" instead of "apt-get install
kernel-source-<ver>", provided they have sources in theis
sources.list?

Regards, EOF