On 9/19/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matt, I agree, but, what I think is wrong is the idealism that David Woodhouse has on this, he doesn't care if something breaks. A really good example here is iptables. How would you suggest handling that can of worms.
The thing is, it's not just him, it's Linus. I know you've read the headers threads on lkml (probably way more than I have), so you know that Linus wants nothing to do with helping out packages that use the kernel headers in a broken way. Here's a quick summary: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6536 So, you're probably not gonna see any help in these headers because Linus is gonna nix it. As for iptables or any other package that will break with these headers, the fix will be easy to find: look at the Fedora specs. They're gonna use these headers, the guy in charge of these headers works on Fedora, the glibc guys work on Fedora, etc. Hell, we break things all the time when we upgrade gcc. We just deal with it in BLFS by looking at what the other distros are doing if no C expert is around at the time. I don't see how this is different. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
