seriously ... i think this would actually cause more head aches for all of
us than u would believe
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> From: Illuminati Primus <vermont@gate.net>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: A packaged kernel
> Date: Wednesday, January 22, 1997 12:07 AM
>
>
> I was just sitting here staring at acidwarp too long and I decided to
> write to linux-kernel about something has probably been thought of many
> times before.. (but I haven't read anything about it yet):
>
> Would there be some clean way to allow a linux user to configure his/her
> kernel BEFORE downloading the >6 meg tar, and then have some sort of
> automatic script download only the parts of the kernel that are needed to
> build that system?
>
> This would help tremendously with the great amount of people who have a
> limited amount of bandwidth/space but still want to use recent linux
> kernels... In fact, alot of people are probably downloading 90% code that
> they don't use in their kernel.. Im not saying the amount of features the
> kernel supports is a bad thing (its actually the best thing about linux),
> its just that not everyone needs to download the entire kernel.
>
> Of course, this might be hard to implement, and the current kernel
> distribution sites would have to provide some way to retrieve only parts
> of the current kernels, but I think it would be worth it in the end. On
> top of the space/time decrease required to get new kernels, it might also
> simplify the organization of the kernel if a user could see that a
certain
> part of it was recently changed, and choose to only update that part of
> the kernel.. It might help to track bugs down easier, and eventually
maybe
> make Linus's job of releasing an entirely new kernel for every set of
> changes no longer necessary. Maybe he could even delegate certain parts
> of the packages to be directly maintained by other people (instead of him
> having to patch and tar up everything all the time).
>
> Anyhow, just some ideas, they might have been proposed and bashed down a
> long time ago, but I haven't seen any mention of this yet in the months
> that I have been reading the mailing list.
>
> -Vermont Rutherfoord
> Mongoloid Programmer tier #2
> vermont@gate.net
>
> PD
> Maybe Ive just been blind and something like this already exists?
>
> PPD
> Does BSD do something like this?