Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de)
Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:10:56 +0100


On Thu, 06 Dec 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> IMHO it's not acceptable that people upgrading from one 2.4
> kernel to the next will have to install Python 2 on their
> machine. Security bugs are and will be discovered, you cannot
> make it impossible for people to do security upgrades.

While that should be avoided if can be at low cost, you have yet to
prove that Python 2 is an obstacle rather than a temporary inconvenience
-- and it seems as though Python 1.5.2 could be used with some patches.
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