having to build modules is less-than-friendly
Bug #74411 reported by
Brian J. Murrell
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #65174: Installing Lirc support should be simpler.
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Bug Description
I am trying to get lirc going on my edgy system and I have come to the point in the process where I have to install a "lirc-modules-
Is this really as end-user-friendly as this process can get?
I really don't want to get into a pissing contest about which distribution is better, but the one I am coming to Ubuntu from had all of these modules in every kernel they released.
Even if they didn't, the "dkms" system in said distribution would have handled this a whole lot better than it seems to be in Ubuntu.
Can we get this process cleaned up a bit so that it's not so "geeky"?
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And now I see that this is pretty well covered in 65174. I guess consider this a "vote" for that bug. :-)