No more kernel-source(code) ??? (was: rawhide report: 20040623 changes)

[Arjan van de Ven]

> 
> > There's no reason why building a custom kernel should be considered to
> > be any different from building, eg, a custom glibc.
> 
> I'd bet good money on needing access to kernel source to build something
> (typically  a driver, e.g. for the NVidia and centrino drivers) 

you can't use kernel-sourcecode package for that, nor do you need it, so
this part of your argument isn't correct.


> or
> switch on-off some options being a couple of orders of magnitude more
> common than building a custom glibc.

which is one shell command away via rpmbuild -bp ....
you need to enter a few dozen shell commands to compile a kernel anyway,
is one more such a big deal ?
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