On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no wrote:
Dmitrijs Ledkovs x...@debian.org writes:
On 5 September 2013 20:58, Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no wrote:
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
Quoting Bjørn Mork (bj...@mork.no):
So, it's probably less overkill than it may
On 5 September 2013 20:58, Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no wrote:
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
Quoting Bjørn Mork (bj...@mork.no):
So, it's probably less overkill than it may seem at first glance to
imagine that installing headers by default may help in some cases.
I hope and
Dmitrijs Ledkovs x...@debian.org writes:
On 5 September 2013 20:58, Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no wrote:
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
Quoting Bjørn Mork (bj...@mork.no):
So, it's probably less overkill than it may seem at first glance to
imagine that installing headers by default
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes:
If we begin installing it by default,
users should come to just expect that they can build kernel modules from
source without doing anything more than a make, which will be a good
thing.
Really? I seriously doubt that. It's about as good as making it
Bjørn Mork wrote:
Really? I seriously doubt that. It's about as good as making it easier
for the users to replace the default libc or init system with a non-
Debian package.
I have never needed to replace libc in order to make my laptop's wifi
work.
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On 4 September 2013 22:03, Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote:
Package: base-installer
Severity: normal
The CD images include linux-headers packages, but d-i does not install
these by default. I think that it should, so that if the user needs
to build out of tree kernel modules they don't need
Dmitrijs Ledkovs x...@debian.org writes:
My latest ultra notebook doesn't have ethernet port and needs
out-of-the-tree wifi drivers compiled.
I fetched the tarball off github on my phone transferred it to that
notebook over USB and then compiled.
And this is the preferred solution, which
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
I managed to compiled because I joyfully discovered that default
Ubuntu installations do install gcc and linux-headers unconditionally.
Noticing a this laptop worked for me on Ubuntu page that treated
installing necessary out of kernel modules as (rightly) no big deal,
On 5 September 2013 15:07, Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no wrote:
Dmitrijs Ledkovs x...@debian.org writes:
My latest ultra notebook doesn't have ethernet port and needs
out-of-the-tree wifi drivers compiled.
I fetched the tarball off github on my phone transferred it to that
notebook over USB and
Quoting Bjørn Mork (bj...@mork.no):
We can continue like this if you want. Or maybe you'd like to define
your problem instead of your solution?
I'm sorry to play this game, but have you noticed who sent this bug report?
Then, have you ever looked at the changelog of any D-I package?
In
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
Quoting Bjørn Mork (bj...@mork.no):
We can continue like this if you want. Or maybe you'd like to define
your problem instead of your solution?
I'm sorry to play this game, but have you noticed who sent this bug report?
Yes, which is all the
Package: base-installer
Severity: normal
The CD images include linux-headers packages, but d-i does not install
these by default. I think that it should, so that if the user needs
to build out of tree kernel modules they don't need to jump through
the additional hoops of learning that Debian has
On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 17:03 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Package: base-installer
Severity: normal
The CD images include linux-headers packages, but d-i does not install
these by default. I think that it should, so that if the user needs
to build out of tree kernel modules they don't need to jump
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 05:03:46PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
The CD images include linux-headers packages, but d-i does not install
these by default.
Which distro does? A normal user does not need to build its own modules.
We also don't install a toolchain, aka build-essential.
Bastian
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