From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8974 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Oct 2003 01:28:18 -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 6753 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2003 01:28:18 -0000 X-WM-Posted-At: mailandnews.com; Fri, 3 Oct 03 21:28:18 -0400 From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 09:01:55 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310032350.29684.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <20031003235812.GV10917@mail.lieber.org> In-Reply-To: <20031003235812.GV10917@mail.lieber.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310040901.55155.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: e76428c3-54f6-4a41-82fd-e6ff2a86997c X-Archives-Hash: c0c656f2e0ccfe993bf8e43d41882567 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list