kernels in the packaging universe (was: Re: F7 Plan (draft))

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> Well, I was against kernels in Extras in the past, too, and I agree that
> maintaining them would be a large maintenance headache. But I more and
> more think we should have a (semi-)official place for alternate
> kernel-images (say RT, OpenVZ, OLPC, PS3, Vserver, Xen, Vanilla [would
> be cool for debugging bugs to check if they are fedora-specific], mm,
> latest-linus,...) in Fedora-land somewhere with a big, fat warning sign:
> - Use at your own risk
> - no guarantees for security updates
> - be aware that these kernels might miss features like Xen, tux, foo or
> bar that are in the main kernel package
> - no precompiled kmods are available

A tentative +1.

The problem: no caveat is ever clear enough for some people.  But I don't 
think that's a reason to ignore alternative kernels entirely.

--g

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