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Too much choiceToo much choicePosted Jan 21, 2008 6:17 UTC (Mon) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)In reply to: Too much choice by salimma Parent article: Fedora developers on PackageKit
DKMS is something I hear of once every six months. Is it really in use? And if so, how much overhead does it mean for end users?
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Too much choice Posted Jan 22, 2008 0:40 UTC (Tue) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link] It's used by at least one popular third-party repository for Fedora (FreshRPMS), and since it was developed by Dell, presumably the repositories that Dell host to support their Linux machines use DKMS for kernel modules. The only overhead is that you need a compiler and the kernel headers installed. (Oh, and on Fedora, right now, it cannot clean up old modules when the corresponding kernel is removed. On Debian/Ubuntu this works, and they're working to port the fix)
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