Installing a compiler by default

[Jan Claeys]

Op di, 13-06-2006 te 12:13 -0700, schreef Matt Zimmerman:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:43:39PM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:

> > 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.

But of course the same is true for the source tarballs that people have
to find & compile themselves...

> but in practice it is quite a lot of work to backport drivers and
> regression-test the kernels and ISOs,

Those drivers could (also) be provided by the community; and the fact
that I saw some drivers for breezy in (private) third party repos shows
that this already happens.  So wouldn't it be nicer if they would be
available from a central repository then, where everybody can find them
easily?

I understand that they can't be included in the default kernel-image
packages after release without extensive testing, but when distributed
in a separate package they can only cause regressions for those who
can't use their system correctly anyway...


-- 
Jan Claeys