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

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org>]

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On Saturday 04 October 2003 12:40 pm, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> The day that Gentoo *forces* me to use a kernel auto-magically configured
> and compiled for me through an 'emerge' is the day that Gentoo joins my
> RedHat CDs in the bin.
You could always 'emerge linux-src' if Portage were to add the -src suffix as 
I described.

>
> Just because I'm emerged any particular set of kernel sources does *not*
> mean that a) I want that kernel adding to lilo/grub yet,
I don't think it should modify the configurations, only a few symlinks that 
you can ignore if you choose to.

> and b) that my box
> has everything else in place to boot and run that kernel.
If you'd be compiling the kernel for another system, you could have Portage 
build only a GRP. As for local dependencies, the development-sources already 
depend on the module-init-tools needed to run them even though the sources 
don't actually need it. It might also be worth noting that often the time 
between a system update and etc-update, your system could in theory be 
unbootable were there to be a power failure.
- -- 
Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
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