From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4839 invoked by uid 1002); 3 Oct 2003 19:27:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29886 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2003 19:27:20 -0000 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20031003111254.15c5ef72.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <3F7D4741.40603@gentoo.org> <20031003111254.15c5ef72.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-GC8QKPv7nneW44V9fknr" Message-Id: <1065209212.11728.2.camel@sfa234225.richmond.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:26:52 -0400 X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-38.7, required 5, EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, IN_REP_TO, PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_XIMIAN) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: 5da936b4-b321-41ef-8cc4-336b9992d5e0 X-Archives-Hash: a84f375c2b3e012878e4412d60e59231 --=-GC8QKPv7nneW44V9fknr Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 14:12, C. Brewer wrote: > On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 05:54:09 -0400 > Brad Laue wrote: >=20 > > Many ebuilds do this; if a USE flag enables a feature with which anothe= r=20 > > feature conflicts, the other feature must be disabled to compensate -=20 > > shouldn't be much of a logistical problem. >=20 > Rather than use flags against the gentoo-sources...why not use flags agai= nst > the appropriate vanilla versions? Should clear up the tree a bunch, and t= hen > you could have - > vanilla-sources (with use wolk,xfs,ck,etc) > dev-sources (with use mm,whatever) > gentoo-sources > ppc-sources > other-sources.. > I know it'd be a bunch of work to change em over, but it'd leave the > gentoo-sources from getting clashed and should be easier to keep track of > one ebuild with different useflags than fifteen ebuilds..or it could be t= ime > for my medication again:) A problem is that people who release kernel patches do not do so at the same time (e.g. Con Kolivas's second patchset for 2.4.22 is not released at the same time as Alan Cox's third patchset for 2.4.22 etc etc, so the version numbers would not work out properly for third-party patchsets, and people wouldn't know when upgrades were available. --=-GC8QKPv7nneW44V9fknr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/fc18XVaO67S1rtsRAmm3AKC6iyOXDpgxo7t0Oc5XO247UvECHACg85fo 1KO3ZH9uvmp0eLx3tJsl9ew= =YxW9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-GC8QKPv7nneW44V9fknr--