On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:06:19AM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Of course one does not _have_ to follow Torvalds, > and one certainly does not have to say Yes to all kernel options. > > However, if you are going to save .config, I don't see any advantage > in _not_ doing it as suggested by Torvalds (or his team). Name *one* good reason for doing /proc/config.gz over Copying it to /boot/. I've seen this proposed multiple times (on-list and in bugzilla), and not seen a single compelling reason to turn it on. > Personally, I think there are quite a few places > where Fedora has opted to "go its own way" > without as far as I can see any very good reason for this. It's not 'going its own way' for no reason, its done this way because the other way is _stupid_, and offers no additional benefit over a method which uses zero memory. Dave
