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

Matthias Andree
2001-12-06T19:57:41Z

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.