Re: metadata plugins (was Re: the " 'official' point of view"expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion)

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Jul 29 2006 - 05:11:49 EST



> Most users not only cannot patch a kernel, they don't know what a patch
> is. It most certainly does.


obviously you can provide complete kernels, including precompiled ones.
Most distros have a yum or apt or similar tool to suck down packages,
it's trivial for users to add a site to that, so you could provide
packages if you want and make it easy for them.

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