Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:35:47 -0800 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ |
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:09:35PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >>b) when include/user is deemed sufficiently populated, a flag day is > >>declared and links from /usr/include are switched to them > > > > > >there are no such links, only copies (more or less modified)
Indeed.
> This may be somewhat heretical, but someone has to ask... > > Once include/user/foo.h is sufficiently clean and sufficiently complete, is > there any reason to not allow such links?
Briefly it's preferable not to need the kernel source nor a particular version of the kernel source around to compile things. Though a complete include/user makes building a proper kernel-headers package to install in /usr/include pretty trivial.
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