On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 10:02:24PM +0200, Guest section DW wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 03:32:25PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > FWIW, the coming-very-soon Linux-Mandrake 7.1 beta will include a system
> > service "kheader", which is run at boot time to make sure that the
> > kernel source/include symlinks are correct for the kernel version
> > currently running.
>
> I hope you realize that this is very undesirable [in case these symlinks are
> the ones providing the <linux/foo.h> includes].
>
> I have been told that Debian has done this right for a long time already.
> Is Mandrake now slowly going to reinvent the wheel, finally to adopt
> the Debian solution?
> Or do I misunderstand you?
I think Jeff means that the /usr/src/linux symlink will be changed, not
the ones in /usr/include.
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