Do I need the kernel-source?

"Rodolfo J. Paiz" <[email protected]> Tue, 14 May 2002 05:00:04 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Good morning, all.

I have a small SparcStation 5 on Zoot, and I've just noticed that the 
kernel-source (2.2.19-6.2.12) is taking up roughly 85 MB of space and 
kernel-doc another 3 MB. I'd like this machine's packages to take up as 
little space as possible; this box is about to become my home firewall and 
DHCP/DNS server so I don't need much.

I'm not sure under what circumstances I would need the kernel source, since 
Red Hat's kernel has been rock solid for me and I hesitate to fix anything 
that isn't broken. May I safely remove the kernel-source and kernel-doc 
packages?

Thanks,


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
[email protected]