Summary of Dropped Packages

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:41:02AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Making kernel-devel packages share the base files from a core package
> but just include their own build-specific headers and asm-offsets.h
> would get rid of another 8M or so, too. More than that if we still have

Alternatively there can be just one kernel-devel that provides all 4
and is hardlinked within the package.

> the Xen kernel-devel packages in the tree. And would have the added
> benefit of not requiring us to run hardlink in %post.

Hardlink in %post is so that files can be shared accross different kernels,
so would be still desirable.
But perhaps something could be speeded up by not using a general hardlinking
proglet, but instead a specialized one (in kernel*devel* one would expect
mainly just files with the same relative name under the kernel specific
subdir to be identical, so a specialized proglet can check just those;
furthermore, it can only compare the newly added kernel with the current
ones, doesn't have to compare the already installed kernel-devel's against
each other).

	Jakub