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Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat



On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:16:36PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> With the latest release, it's now down to about 80MB.  In any case, we
> never release with more than one old kernel, nor with experimental kernels,
> so that would be 1 x 2.2.x, and at most 2 x 2.4.x.

This sucks. Hopefully not only in my opinion. But, see, I don't agree with 
you if you concentrate on 2.4.x kernels until 2.4.10 or better .15 is
released. I felt like on an horror trip when I saw potato released with
an prerelaese of a stable kernel. And please, don't use a 2.4.x kernel
for wood as the standard kernel-image.

But this thread's discussion ducks. It will point to nothing, if noone will
suggest a solution. What's about the kernel images to be pseudopackages
with special configs depending on patches and kernelsource to build a 
kernel live when installing it?

so long...

David
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