On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> [ferret@phonewave.net]
> > One last question: WHY is the kernel's top-level Makefile handling
> > this symlink?
>
> Where do you think it should be handled? 'make modules_install' seems
> like the most logical place, to me.
I think making the symlink should be handled outside the proper scope of
the top-level Makefile, for reasons I have brought up earlier in this
discussion; The Makefile is simply not equipped to know the full state of
the system it is being run for outside the simple case of one single
machine.
s/WHY is/For which specific reasons is/
Anyway, the associated discussions cleared up nearly all the
technical-related questions I had. The remaining questions relate toward
policy-issues orthogontal to implementation details. I am still a little
unclear on the nature of the problem this symlink is meant to solve.
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