Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

[Scott Dier <dieman@ringworld.org>]

> It also makes it 5 times as hard to build a modules package for our
> stock kernels. And uses an equivilant of extra space there of course.

If you punch out a kernel module package its not so bad if all the
headers files are installed.  I wrote up a e1000 kernel package before
it showed up here as an ITP by someone else and it worked great.

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