On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:50:15PM +0000 or thereabouts, Luke-Jr wrote:
> Another suggestion... Why not move away from -sources and make ebuilds based 
> on genkernel (eg. sys-kernel/{,{gentoo,redhat,suse,...}-}linux). There would 
> need to be something for manual configuration changes, but I believe 
> genkernel already supports something like this. The only problem I can see is 
> that it would end up recompiling the entire kernel for every configuration 
> change, though that's a Portage bug that affects all ebuilds currently.
> Is there any reason to install the kernel sources anymore and not do this?

I would be quite violently opposed to removing kernel sources entirely from
portage.  genkernel may be nice as an option for users who wish it.  Do not
force me to use it, however.

--kurt