> Le 04/01/2016 17:32, Svante Signell a écrit :
>> On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 16:53 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
>>> Le 04/01/2016 16:26, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
>>>> I meant
>>>>>> 4) Let the installer build the kernel, depending on what the 
>>>>>> hardware
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> file systems being installed actually need.
>>>       Maybe Gentoo does this, although I'm not sure, but the 
>>> philosophy
>>> is very different: they compile everything from source. And it 
>>> doesn't
>>> install as smoothly as Devuan.

>>>       In Devuan it means something very unusual: the installer must 
>>> first
>>> install gcc, generate a config file and compile the kernel. It is not 
>>> an
>>> easy task to generate a working config for any hardware combination. 
>>> The
>>> resulting kernel package would be local and couldn't undergo 
>>> upgrades.
>> Just an idea: Would it be possible to detect the hardware of each 
>> computer being
>> installed on and after that install the needed modules? Preferably the 
>> modules
>> should not be located on /usr, currently they are under /lib.

>     I don't understand the repulsion towards having the modules in
> /usr/lib. What difference does it make? None, unless you want the
> three following conditions: no initramfs, /usr being a mountpoint,
> some drivers and filesystems compiled in the kernel, but missing just
> the one for /usr. You've got to work pretty hard to fulfill these
> conditions.

>     Didier