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    SubjectRe: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
    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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