Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:31:00 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Simple header cleanups |
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Agreed. And distributions and library maintainers _will_ fix them. Are > we to deny those people the tools which will help them to keep track of > our breakage and submit patches to fix it?
No. As mentioned, as long as the target audience is distributions and library maintainers, I definitely think we should do help them as much as possible. Our problems have historically been "random people" who have /usr/include/linux being the symlink to "kernel source of the day", which is an unsupportable situation.
(And yes, for a short while back in the early nineties, that symlink was even the proper thing to do. But exactly because it's unsupportable, it pretty quickly got to be a "don't do that then", but I still occasionally hear from people who use bad distributions).
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