Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:30:47PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:47:44AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > 
> > what is the DIFFERENCE between kernel-headers-2.4.2 and all the other
> > 2.4.2 kernel headers packages?
> 
> Kernel-headers-2.4.2 is built with the default config file, and the
> other ones are built with their respective config files.

so, what's the difference between all the packages? they're the same
header files from the same kernel source tree, aren't they?

> > and while you're at it, how about answering the other questions that
> > you ignored in my last message?
>
> Which were?

   "it's only one kernel, one source tree...so where do all these
    different header files come from? what's the point of them? what do
    they provide that just plain kernel-headers-2.4.2 doesn't provide?"

craig

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