Hi, On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:53:46AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > These days, there's a few dependencies you need to know about (I do agree > that from a user perspective the thing might have been made a bit _too_ > modular)
Indeed, no argument here. > That said, the _one_ thing I really wish could be done would be to make it > easier to install things side-by-side - and with the modularization, you > really do want to do it module-by-module. One of the things that makes it > so easy to test the kernel is that when you install one kernel, that > doesn't affect the others, and you can go back-and-forth in testing. > That's really important, because it makes testing trivial and non-scary > even in the presense of issues that makes the new version unusable. FWIW, Option "ModulePath" in xorg.conf lets you more or less do this; the usual approach is to install your new server + drivers into a separate prefix. Cheers, Daniel
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