[PLUG] Replacement for /usr/src?

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, MJang wrote:

> FWIW, Red Hat / Fedora is doing it completely differently. Kernel sources
> now come from source code packages, and are installed in some long
> directory - e.g., my RHEL 5 b2 kernel source is in:
>
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i386/

Mike,

   That was how RH 4.0 did it, and that's why I have I have those directories
still on my systems.

   Slackware provides packages, too, but I prefer to add capabilities I need
(and not have those I don't need), so I build a custom kernel.

Rich

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