On Monday 23 November 2009 07:44:07 am Istvan Gabor wrote:

Hello:

Occasionally I have to build kernel modules. For this in earlier SUSE versions (up to 10.3) kernel-source and kernel-syms packages had to be installed. In 11.2 if I select kernel-syms for installation the following packages are also selected automatically: kernel-debug-devel kernel-default-devel kernel-desktop-devel kernel-pae-devel kernel-xen-devel

I can understand that kernel-default-devel is selected, as I have default kernel, but why the remaining packages have to be installed? For me it seems to be nonsense. I do not want those additional packages.

Thanks, Istvan

I'm not sure you need the syms anymore for building the occasional module. Just the headers seems to be needed for the couple of things I have to build. But, yeah, they should not drag in all those dev packages. -- If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org