Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: tag -1 + wontfix > zfs-dkms is the failsafe in case the zfs-modules-<kernelversion> package is > *not* installed > (for example, because this is the first slow box I'm installing this kernel > or this version of > zfs-dkms on and I don't yet have a corresponding zfs-modules package).
Let's imagine you install modules pkg first, then dkms pkg, which skips building because you have "same" modules installed. After some days you accidentally uninstalled the modules pkg, then how would the dkms pkg know and start the building? There is no such mechanism according to my knowledge. Even though such mechanism can be implemented by dkms, let's dig deeper into details: how would dkms know that your prebuilt version and dkms source files are "the exact same" and decide to skip? Designing such a mechanism would be either cumbersome for developers, or confusing for users, I suppose. Thanks, Shengqi Chen
