Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 13:14:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 13:12:53 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:14610 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 12:43:20 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 18:43:17 +0100 (CET) From: Dave Jones To: "Eric S. Raymond" Cc: , Christoph Hellwig , Keith Owens , , Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5 In-Reply-To: <20011204120305.A16578@thyrsus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > After CML2 has proven itself in 2.5, I do plan to go back to Marcelo > and lobby for him accepting it into 2.4, on the grounds that doing so > will simplify his maintainance task no end. > ... > I'm just going to say "Today's problems, today's tools." So anyone perfectly happy with an older distro that didn't ship python2-and-whatever-else gets screwed when they want to build a newer kernel. Nice. Dave. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/