arch fun.

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 06.02.2009 19:11, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 01:01:43PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> 
>> Not quite though from what I hear (trying to reconcile what Thorsten
>> said). But perhaps he was solely complaining that most people would run
>> PAE and thus have to type kmod-crud-PAE.
> 
> The kmod thing is a non-argument afaics.
> 
> If you currently use kernel-686, you'll be running kernel-586 in F11,
> so you have 'kmod-foo' to go with it.

Correct.

> If you currently use kernel-686-PAE, you'll be running the _same_ thing
> in F11.

Correct.

> The only possible change, is that with anaconda recognising PAE
> and installing the PAE kernel by default, more people will be running it.
> So it's just exposing it to more people.

Correct.

> I don't see how this is a problem.

Getting rid of the suffix -PAE afaics would solve exactly the problem
that now is "just exposed to more people" (or might make solving it a
lot easier afaics). And it would make documentation a whole lot easier,
making Fedora easier to use. But whatever. You guys on IRC made clearly
indicated you option reg. kmod so I don't think it's worth arguing further.

CU
knurd