dkms for fc7?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Jan 22 18:27:29 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 10:56 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "JK" == Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> writes:
> JK> DKMS also adds another database that keeps track of the software
> JK> you have installed.
> 
> So do Perl and Python and PHP and Ruby and various other complex
> subsystems, and yet we manage to work with those as well, mainly by
> having proper packaging guidelines, making the assumption that users
> will simply use rpm or yum to install things and by offering little or
> no help to them when they don't.

Much like the fact that we have proper packaging guidelines for kernel
modules, assume that users will simply use rpm or yum to install them
and offer little or no help to them if they want to do otherwise?

> So I'm a bit confused; are you saying that somehow dkms does not
> permit us to do the same thing?  

The same thing as which of the above?

Jeremy




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