Re: [fuse-devel] FUSE userspace binaries from 2.6.14 kernel onwards

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

> Since FUSE is being included into the mainline kernel, it would make
> sense to provide userspace parts of fuse as separate packages,
> especially for distributions, that will provide the fuse module in
> their kernel, but not the userspace parts.

The source package for FUSE already automatically detects, whether the
kernel module already exists (and is configured in, or is a module) in
the current kernel, and in that case does not compile and install it.
This can be overridden by a configure option.

I don't plan to split the source package.

> Is there any initiative to provide such packages in the FUSE
> project? Is there a plan to provide such packages, or will that be
> left entirely to the distributions to provide (or not)?

It's up to the distributions.  I know that debian and gentoo already
provide official packages, and there are unofficial packages for
fedora.

If you lack FUSE support on your favourite distro, please ask them to
provide one.

Miklos