[fab] Non-standard kernels in the Fedora Multiverse

Greg DeKoenigsberg gdk at redhat.com
Tue May 9 04:01:23 UTC 2006


On Mon, 8 May 2006, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> I think that this request may fit into more of an Alternatives project
> where multiple kernels and other tools might be able to look at.

Yeah.  We killed off Alternatives a while back -- not because it wasn't a 
good idea, but because it wasn't a good idea at the time.

Here's the fallback position: Fernando continues to maintain the CCRMA
kernel in his own yum repo, and *everything else* gets pulled into Extras
over time.  (To the best of my knowledge, none of the CCRMA apps *require*
the CCRMA kernel -- it's just a huge help for getting any actual work
done.)  That way, at least Fernando has a mechanism to spread the workload
for maintaining CCRMA among several assistants, and can spend most of his
time maintaining his own kernel as he sees fit.

Meanwhile, we wait for the day when Ingo's realtime patches make it into 
the mainline kernels.  When that day comes, the CCRMA project goes away.

Makes sense to me, now that I have a better sense of the pain involved.

--g

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