Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

[Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:15:24PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:56:58PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
>> Just in case anyone else was confused, I'm still in favor of having at
>> least *one* precompiled kernel per-architecture, so no one *has* to
>> compile a kernel,
>
>i think everyone is in favour of that.
>
>the issue is whether it's appropriate to have a dozen or so kernel-image
>packages (and associated kernel-headers packages) per kernel version,
>when one(*) will do.

Don't forget the proliferation of kernel modules in that count.  This
has already started with alsa recently, and I expect that more will
follow before too long:

    alsa-modules-2.4.3-386
    alsa-modules-2.4.3-586
    alsa-modules-2.4.3-586tsc
    alsa-modules-2.4.3-686
    alsa-modules-2.4.3-686-smp
    alsa-modules-2.4.3-k6
    alsa-modules-2.4.3-k7
    alsa-modules-2.4.3-pentium4
    alsa-modules-2.4.3-pentiumiii
    alsa-modules-2.4.3-pentiumiii-smp
    kernel-headers-2.4.3
    kernel-headers-2.4.3-386
    kernel-headers-2.4.3-586
    kernel-headers-2.4.3-586tsc
    kernel-headers-2.4.3-686
    kernel-headers-2.4.3-686-smp
    kernel-headers-2.4.3-k6
    kernel-headers-2.4.3-k7
    kernel-headers-2.4.3-pentium4
    kernel-headers-2.4.3-sparc
    kernel-image-2.4.3-386
    kernel-image-2.4.3-586
    kernel-image-2.4.3-586tsc
    kernel-image-2.4.3-686
    kernel-image-2.4.3-686-smp
    kernel-image-2.4.3-k6
    kernel-image-2.4.3-k7
    kernel-image-2.4.3-pentium4

Regards,
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Brendan O'Dea                                        bod@compusol.com.au
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