On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 06:28:36PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > I don't see your point.
I can have libfoo1 and libfoo2 installed and used at the same time so both applications compiled for libfoo1 and libfoo2 can be used at the same time. I can recompile my applications for libfoo2 as I get around to it. When everything is recompiled libfoo1 can be removed. For kernel modules, I have to recompile all the kernel modules in order to move to a new kernel since I can't use a mixture of kernel modules for two different kernel versions since I can only be running one kernel at a time. > We were talking about nvidia-graphics-drivers. Prebuilt nvidia LKM packages > are already built by dedicated source packages. No, the nvidia package generates nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-dev, nvidia-kernel-source and such. It does NOT know anything about building modules for specific kernel variants. That is done manually by someone so far (and hence seems to be a bit infrequent). The linux-modules-*-2.6 package makes it possible to simply have the buildd's take care of that job. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]