[plug] re: kernel -smp conflict

[Cameron Patrick]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:32:53PM +0800, Denis Brown wrote:

| I'm a bit confused here... if rpm's are like deb's, they manage
| dependencies, right?   For "normal" applications and applets I can
| understand the benefits of creating rpm's (or deb's) so they can be
| applied to differing configurations.   But since a kernel is so intimately
| tied with the hardware on which it will run - unless there are gross
| inefficiencies trying to match all possible hardware - what is the benefit
| of having a kernel done up in an rpm?

I would imagine much the same as having one done up in .deb with
make-kpkg: you can compile it on a fast machine and shift it onto a slow
and/or compiler-less machine trivially.

Cameron.