Attention kernel module project packagers!

Toshio Kuratomi toshio at tiki-lounge.com
Tue Aug 15 14:19:52 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 15:52 +0200, Leszek Matok wrote:
> People are going to make kernel module rpms anyhow. Forcing them to use
> flawed design that's hard to use, maintain, keep in sync with kernel
> updates and impossible to boot older kernels is worse than pushing Xorg
> 7.1 for FC5 which we're not doing because... we recognize the need for
> people to use off-tree kernel modules :) The Board has spoken - using
> external kernel modules is a valid user choice and it's important to
> make it easier for the users. That's my understanding of The Board's
> decision.
> 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-August/msg00466.html

"""+ I'm not interested in doing precedent setting with this. The Board
made the call that we ultimately felt was best in *this instance* -- we
weren't making the decision for all future cases as well."""

-Toshio
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