On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 12:04:44PM -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
I'd really really like it if someone inside the fence line could
find
(or be allocated) the time to sit down and think through DKMS and see
if it makes sense to provide DKMS in core, as the preferred solution
Actually thats already happening.
to some of the add-on kernel-module problems. I don't know if if
DKMS
can solve all of the add-on module issues, I'm no expert, but I'd have
to agree that right now DKMS looks like a best path forward to me.
DKMS doesn't seem to solve a lot of problems that packaging the stuff up
in rpms nicely does. It provides a way to rebuild modules nicely and it
looks like a good tool for administering that bit.
I'm not sure it needs to be in core for Fedora since add on drivers can
requires: dkms it if appropriate but I'd like to hear views on the Fedora
side.