SaschaS wrote: > After having a looong chat with the guys from linux4audio and reading > tons of posts in ccrma forum, I must say ..... > > Idea with an rt-kernel for netbooks ....... DISMISSED .... it simply > makes no sense. > Those guys mostly use gentoo and build their own kernel for years now > and they gave me the following hints, that also can be found in > discussions of other distributions: Pre-built kernels are appropriate for standard and newbie systems, but what you might consider is packaging a kernel .config file with the options for your custom kernel, having the package prereq kernel-source, and having the spec file compile the kernel with that .config file and install it under a name derived from the package-name.
Of course, we'll get performance complaints about urpmi running for 3 or 4 hours, but hey, it's a lot less of a bandwidth/space hog.