Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree

[Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com>]

On Saturday 04 October 2003 08:58, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. Genkernel would also prevent the addition of other patches by hand...

Jason

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