Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

[Daniel Stone <daniel@kabuki.openfridge.net>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:30:22PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:27:18PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > 
> > No argument there, but this is where necessity and duplication comes into
> > play. These documentation packages, don't have 14 copies of the same file
> > now, do they?
> 
> Well, why don't you start writing a patch? And please submit the bug against
> the right package, i.e., work out who's constructing what before you go off
> filing bugs.

<elmo>I would be doing something productive [i.e. that patch] right now, if
this thread weren't wasting my time.</elmo>

Oddly enough, I now *start* to see his point. BTW, I have neither the time
(p100 with 48meg? multiple kernel builds, each time you build the package,
and that's bound to be a few, because of testing?) or the space (multiple
kernel trees, multiple kernel compiles, on 3.3gig?) to really do this, but
I'll try anyway. 

-- 
Daniel Stone
Linux Kernel Developer
daniel@kabuki.openfridge.net