I recently installed the new libc6 experiental pacakges which also wants you to install kernel-headers. The problem is that kernel-headers thinks it "owns" /usr/src/linux. For users using the kernel-package (or whatvever) to build their own kernels, this may be a problem. It was at least surprising.
In my case, I didn't even notice that kernel-headers added the /usr/src/linux link, and since I normally don't ever have a /usr/src/linux on my machine, I can just assume that it's safe to untar a new kernel in /usr/src and then "mv linux linux-<version>" [1]. However, when the kernel-headers package is installed, this means I'm unpacking my new kernel source into the kernel-header package's directory -- not good. Now I'm happy to just change my behavior, and unpack the kernels I download somewhere else, but I think you're going to see some mayhem when this pair of packages is released and other people doing something similar suddenly have to treat /usr/src/linux as read only without being warned. [1] Why Linus has linux-<version>.tar.gz unpack linux rather than linux-<version> has never made much sense to me. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .