Posted by Roman Fiedler on Sep 20 Well, splitting the kernel in per module packages may have other advantages, e.g. less data transferred due to using selected small packages only, but I don't know if in age of GBit-networking and huge disks is worth it. Otherwise I would assume, that package selection on diverse hardware might get quite annoying during install: you detect some USB hardware, install some USB controller packages, install them, load the modules, the next run...

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