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Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat



On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:20:42AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> 
> what, exactly, is the difference between kernel-headers-2.4.2 and:
> 
> 	kernel-headers-2.4.2-386
> 	kernel-headers-2.4.2-586
> 	kernel-headers-2.4.2-586tsc
> 	kernel-headers-2.4.2-686-smp
> 	kernel-headers-2.4.2-686
> 	kernel-headers-2.4.2-k6
> 	kernel-headers-2.4.2-k7
> 	kernel-headers-2.4.2-pentium4
> 	kernel-headers-2.4.2-pentiumiii
> 	kernel-headers-2.4.2-pentiumiii-smp
> 
> ?

These packages contain the modules directory and the autoconf.h file,
neither of which you can do without if you want to compile binary modules
with checksums.
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