Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:25:32 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] kbuild: drop vmlinux dependency from "make install"
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:21:51AM -0500, Cal Peake wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> > This removes the dependency from vmlinux to install, thus avoiding the
> > current situation where "make install" has a nasty tendency to leave
> > root-turds in the working directory.
> 
> Is removing the `kernel_install' target considered a userspace interface 
> breakage? ;) Or am I just gonna have to get used to typing `make install' 
> again?
make install is there to stay. And now where install and kernel_install
do the same thing the latter will disappear.
So yes, soon yo have to type less.

	Sam
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