On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Jarry <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24-Mar-13 18:39, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >>> BTW why should kmod depend on kernel-sources? Or even better, why >>> should be kmod installed, if I have static (non-modular) kernel? >> >> >> Because your use case is not standard. The normal situation for users >> with kmod installed (and you have already kmod installed, since in >> your --pretend run appears as to be reinstalled) is for them to use >> kernel modules. The developers cannot handle every possible >> combination of configurations, so defaults are set for the least weird >> cases, or the common case even. > > > But what are kernel-sources good for after kernel has been compiled? > They take some disk-space (~700MB in my case!), so I think it is > quite logical to compile kernel, install & test it, and after that > get rid of kernel-sources. > > And I still do not know what does kmod need from kernel-sources. > Some part of kernel source-code? Strange is, up to now kmod was > satisfied even without kernel-sources... > > I know some other packages look for kernel-sources, but issue > only warning if can not found any (i.e. udev). But why does > kmod need kernel-sources so badly it pulls them as dependency? >
It doesn't; this is just a side effect of inheriting linux-mod.eclass. The developer involved is trying to come up with a better solution right now.
