kernels in the packaging universe

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Dec 20 17:55:19 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:51 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> Personally, I'm voting for "don't bother".
>
> This is a bad idea. We're encouraging fragmentation, and discouraging
> the proper upstream path.

Absolutely.

>  If specific open source groups want to do
> pre-upstream testing of kernel packages, let them make their own
> unofficial repos. We'll link to them in our wiki. 

If we must. I think it's better to stick to "if it isn't upstream, it
doesn't exist" though.

We should make it clear we don't want _any_ kmod packages in the new
combined Core+Extras too.

-- 
dwmw2




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