Andreas Jaeger schrieb:
> Just use the kernel development pattern and install it - you get
> everything directly.

Wait - the kernel development pattern includes more packages than needed
for just building external modules, including large and potentially
undesired ones like kernel-debug and kernel-um.

The user might end up with kernel-debug being booted by default. So this
pattern is the right thing for developers, but not for users who just
want to build their favorite gfx driver.

Adding yet another smaller pattern with just kernel-source, gcc and make
for building external modules is probably overkill, we should not
explode the number of patterns infinitely.

>> - package kernel-source needs more discussion; adding a dependency to
>> gcc and make here is IMHO actually more useful than the gcc dependencies
>> within -devel packages.
> 
> Could any of you file a bug, please?

Maybe I'll do it once I'm really convinced that doing this is a good
idea ;-) Or someone who is already convinced, go ahead and do it.

Andreas Hanke
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