[ATrpms-devel] dkms x kmdls (was: CGAL FC6)

[Rex Dieter]

Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:

>> > Changing the subject again, what is your opinion about dkms approach.
>> > I read in the Freshrpms list that Mathias and Dag seems to approve it.
>> >
>> > Despite the fact I do not like anything from Dell, it seems to me that
>> > forcing to have a compiler in the computer is not the best solution.
>>
>> Indeed. The dkms author once discussed this on this list and we
>> considered merging the kmdl and dkms approaches. We found out that
>> they already did the same thing only that kmdl specialized in producing
>> packages while dkms specialized in custom kernel builds.
>>
>> At that time dkms wouldn't offer anything more than kmdls can, but
>> time has passed since and both kmdl and dkms evolved further. Do you
>> see any benefits of today's dkms over today's kmdls?
> 
> 
> No. kmdls are pre-compiled while dkms are compiled during installation.

Correction, afaik, dkms *can* include modules compiled during installation,
but that is not required.  dkms pkgs can include built-ahead-of-time
modules too, just like kmdls.

-- Rex