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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:29:34 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>,
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Subject: Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution)
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:54:12PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Charles Cazabon <charlesc@discworld.dyndns.org>:
> > Yes, and yes.  Aunt Tillie is running Linux because someone installed a
> > distribution for her.
> 
> You don't know that.  Maybe she installed it herself.

So she installed it herself, why isn't $distrovender kernel good enough?
Keep in mind that just because $kernelversion has a bug doesn't mean
that $distrovender-$kernelversion does.  So yes, relying on an update
from $distrovendor is a good thing.  What if your automagic tool existed
and Aunt Tillie clicked when 2.4.15 was current stable?

> > She is never going to need anything out of her kernel that her vendor-shipped
> > update kernels do not provide.
> 
> *You can't know that.*  

Would you accept She'll almost never need something thats not in her
current $distrovednor kernel or the one $distrovendor is working on?

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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