Am Dienstag, den 22.02.2005, 09:18 -0600 schrieb Tom 'spot' Callaway:
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 10:00 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
Hopefully, nothing is depending on a kernel-module package (we can always enforce this by saying anything that DOES depend on a kernel-module package should be packaged with it).
That is bad. Take the ati and nvidia drivers for example. They depend on a kernel-module. Packaging them together is no option there. It would be stupid to package a ~100k module together with a 3,5 MB (numbers from the ATI driver) graphics driver is stupid for kernel updates. Also parallel installation will make problems again.
How many kernel-module packages are we really considering here?
In extras we had ony a kerel module for a thinkpad-driver IIRC. We had als in the FC1 days.
And as I wrote yesterday already:
Also I'm wondering how we should deal with kernel-modules in extras in general. davej/Core refuses everything that is not upstream for a good reason. If we put everything in extras it looks a bit "odd" IMHO.