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Date:      Sun, 4 Oct 2009 13:26:12 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        herbert langhans <herbert.raimund@gmx.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Deleting the kernel source - just with #rm?
Message-ID:  <19144.55988.434058.612528@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091004150809.GA73704@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <20091004131504.GB1406@sandcat> <20091004150809.GA73704@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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Roland Smith writes:

>  > I just compiled a nice, slim kernel on my laptop, but I dont 
>  > want to carry all the kernel sources around there.
>  
>  Keep in mind that some ports (those that contain kernel modules)
>  require the kernel sources.

	And not just kernel modules.  The popular and useful
sysutils/lsof not only requires the source tree (or at least some
part of it), but requires the source match the running kernel.


				Robert Huff





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