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On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 24-Mar-13 18:39, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>>> BTW why should kmod depend on kernel-sources? Or even better, why |
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>>> should be kmod installed, if I have static (non-modular) kernel? |
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>> Because your use case is not standard. The normal situation for users |
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>> with kmod installed (and you have already kmod installed, since in |
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>> your --pretend run appears as to be reinstalled) is for them to use |
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>> kernel modules. The developers cannot handle every possible |
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>> combination of configurations, so defaults are set for the least weird |
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>> cases, or the common case even. |
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> But what are kernel-sources good for after kernel has been compiled? |
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> They take some disk-space (~700MB in my case!), so I think it is |
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> quite logical to compile kernel, install & test it, and after that |
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> get rid of kernel-sources. |
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> And I still do not know what does kmod need from kernel-sources. |
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> Some part of kernel source-code? Strange is, up to now kmod was |
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> satisfied even without kernel-sources... |
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> I know some other packages look for kernel-sources, but issue |
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> only warning if can not found any (i.e. udev). But why does |
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> kmod need kernel-sources so badly it pulls them as dependency? |
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It doesn't; this is just a side effect of inheriting linux-mod.eclass. |
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The developer involved is trying to come up with a better solution |
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right now. |
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