More modularization.

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:47 +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> 
> Who tolds about stable ABI-interface? I just suggest to split kernel
> into 
> a number of packages and add "virtual" one, that install all of them.
> Of 
> course, then someone will upgrade the kernel *all* installed packages 
> would be upgraded.

and the gain of that is.... ?

abi matters a lot in this really. If you don't have a stable ABI, the
version dependencies get *really* messy, and the user experience goes
down the drain unless.. you make all drivers mandatory again. At which
point you have to ask yourself: "Why do this again"