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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5
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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.

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

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