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Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5
From: Edward Muller <emuller@learningpatterns.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 12:43, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.

That's been the case all along, sans python2. Newer kernels need newer
tools. That's always been the case.

> 
> Dave.
> 



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