I agree with brad, I proposed the emerge inject solution was how this
problem was intended to be dealt with but couldn't quite make sense of
the reason this didn't work from the thread.

could someone possibly clearly give the arguement against injecting
again for us slow people?

dave

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 20:22, Brad Laue wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > so !  last call, does anyone really trully hate the idea of dummy-sources ?  
> > if not i'm going to go ahead and add it to the tree
> > - -mike
> 
> It doesn't make any sense. If the original poster uses custom-patched 
> kernels, surely he can create his custom-patches against vanilla-sources?
> 
> It seems to me that dummy-sources would be duplicating emerge -i 
> functionality if no true sources are to be installed, and would be 
> duplicating vanilla-sources if untouched sources are to be installed.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
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