From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27296 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Oct 2003 02:25:05 -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 6463 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2003 02:25:04 -0000 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 22:25:03 -0400 From: Jon Portnoy To: Luke-Jr Cc: Kurt Lieber , Brian Jackson , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20031004022503.GA21335@cerberus.oppresses.us> References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310032350.29684.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <20031003235812.GV10917@mail.lieber.org> <200310040015.32780.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200310040015.32780.luke-jr@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: 02155de8-972e-4528-968e-fb67358be4e7 X-Archives-Hash: cba23283b78bc64775aea376a25bf90b On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:15:00AM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 03 October 2003 11:58 pm, Kurt Lieber wrote: > > 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. > Is there any reason the Linux sources need to be included as an ebuild any > more than, for example, the sources for Portage or Apache? You could always > use ebuild to unpack into /var/tmp/portage and do the compile step yourself. > However, I do think it would be a good idea to have some way of installing the > source for any ebuild into /usr/src. Maybe Portage can check and if the > package name ends with -src, it trims it, only does an unpack and merges the > - -src to /usr/src/ebuildname or something? Yes. Because what you're suggesting is basically just to make genkernel default behavior - when the install guide already suggests using it. You're not suggesting anything that provides a tangible benefit, you're just suggesting expanding our tree to do something we already do. That doesn't make sense. -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list