[gentoo-dev] Purpose of genkernel

[gentoo-dev] Purpose of genkernel

[Bob Johnson]

I think many of our devs need to sit in #gentoo a little more often and
watch new users struggle with there first kernel build.

The whole purpose of genkernel is to help at this stage. Its pretty 
frustrating for a user to spend all day installing gentoo, then cannot
get it to boot.

Its not for everyone, its not perfect. and it was never
intended to takeover any part of sys-kernel.
I wrote it and dont even use it except for testing..

					Bob


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Purpose of genkernel

[Stuart Herbert]

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On Saturday 04 October 2003 2:51 pm, Bob Johnson wrote:
> I think many of our devs need to sit in #gentoo a little more often and
> watch new users struggle with there first kernel build.
>
> The whole purpose of genkernel is to help at this stage. Its pretty
> frustrating for a user to spend all day installing gentoo, then cannot
> get it to boot.
>
> Its not for everyone, its not perfect. and it was never
> intended to takeover any part of sys-kernel.
> I wrote it and dont even use it except for testing..
>
> 					Bob

I've nothing against genkernel.  Never used it, never planning to ;-)  I do 
think users who can't compile a kernel are going to find other problems with 
using Gentoo, but hey - we all started somewhere ;-)

I'm just objecting to what (on the face of it) appear to be far-reaching and 
far-fetched ideas to fundamentally change how kernels are handled.

Best regards,
Stu
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Purpose of genkernel

[Luke-Jr]

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On Saturday 04 October 2003 02:02 pm, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> I do
> think users who can't compile a kernel are going to find other problems
> with using Gentoo, but hey - we all started somewhere ;-)
As I mentioned earlier, compiling is simple. It's the configuring that's often 
the complex part. For example, I don't know enough about my laptop's hardware 
to configure a kernel specifically for it, so genkernel comes in handy there.
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