Installing a compiler by default

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:43:39PM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> Op di, 13-06-2006 te 11:26 -0700, schreef Matt Zimmerman:
> > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:45:52PM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > > So, new binary kernel modules can be packaged separately, and added to
> > > the repositories...
> > 
> > You're proposing a retroactive solution to the problem, and unfortunately my
> > time travel machine is only an amusing metaphor. 
> 
> I was thinking about doing that for "new" kernel modules, released after
> the distro itself to support more hardware (probably because it wasn't
> available before).  I think that wouldn't be possible with all sort of
> drivers, but people are already doing this through third-party repo's.

We can't add new drivers to the discs users receive through shipit or
Amazon.com.  In theory we could periodically roll new ISO images for
download, but in practice it is quite a lot of work to backport drivers and
regression-test the kernels and ISOs, and we couldn't hope to keep up in any
case.

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 - mdz