From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1162 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Oct 2003 13:53:46 -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 29688 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2003 13:53:46 -0000 From: Stuart Herbert To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:51:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310041341.10139.stuart@gentoo.org> <200310041311.08085.luke-jr@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200310041311.08085.luke-jr@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_EBtf/R9Rn1AWsNp"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310041451.00705.stuart@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: cef49642-49ea-44b9-a2f5-c3074534e84d X-Archives-Hash: 40bef0d7500399da1d25899eb35f69c2 --Boundary-02=_EBtf/R9Rn1AWsNp Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 04 October 2003 2:10 pm, Luke-Jr wrote: > You could always 'emerge linux-src' if Portage were to add the -src suffix > as I described. And what would that give me? The current range of sources in Portage gives= me=20 a nice selection of choice. Personally, I'm very happy with it. > I don't think it should modify the configurations, only a few symlinks th= at > you can ignore if you choose to. No thanks. > If you'd be compiling the kernel for another system, you could have Porta= ge > 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.=20 And what about kernel modules that are required? How will those get=20 re-compiled? You can't just re-emerge them, because they have this annoyin= g=20 habit of going and deleting the currently-installed version ... > 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. I'm sorry, but I really do think that this idea is both stupid, and more=20 trouble than it's worth. Administrators have been managing their boxes jus= t=20 fine up to now. Stu =2D-=20 Stuart Herbert stuart@gentoo.o= rg Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.or= g/ Beta packages for download http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/package= s/ Come and meet me in March 2004 http://www.phparch.com/cruis= e/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint =3D 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C =2D- --Boundary-02=_EBtf/R9Rn1AWsNp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/ftBEDC+AuvmvxXwRAtLeAKCxoyowL+kFUtnHQmrdM6wzkWA96QCfQd4j LVjbN6zKwDR1gs6SAOgFRF0= =ahFX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_EBtf/R9Rn1AWsNp--