Sander Marechal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Aaron M. Ucko wrote: >> Sander Marechal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> I don't think Debian should do that, but perhaps the process to >>> install them after the fact could be easier for people who are not >>> full blown Linux admins? >> Are you aware of module-assistant? > Nope, but I was going off Bastian's comment that a lot of modules get > shipped as source and need to be compiled. I use Ubuntu myself (plain > Debian as a dev system and test system) so I already have the modules I > need. Note that Ubuntu doesn't build all the kernel modules either; Ubuntu users have to build their own kernel modules for OpenAFS, for instance, just like Debian users do. We really need to put our heads together and come up with a good system for managing pre-built kernel modules for the kernels in Debian. It's a much more widespread problem than just a question of free vs. non-free. It's possible to do right now, but it involves a ton of manual work by the maintainer every time the list of officially supported kernels changes, and pretty much every upload goes through NEW. I think that to have a really good solution, we're going to need a larger plan that includes changes to the archive management software as well. I'd love to see this be a priority for etch+1. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
