From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11523 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Oct 2003 16:50:16 -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 20871 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2003 16:50:16 -0000 From: Peter Ruskin Organization: Retired To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:50:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310041341.10139.stuart@gentoo.org> <67D8C8CF-F66F-11D7-B976-000A95795F3E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <67D8C8CF-F66F-11D7-B976-000A95795F3E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310041750.48198.aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: 693e6775-0240-44bf-8351-674c6f198d7c X-Archives-Hash: 443d15e387b1ff1955cfbb9a63116f23 On Saturday 04 Oct 2003 14:33, Stroller wrote: > I am sure I am doing a huge injustice to the author of genkernel, but > it's more hassle for me to find out what I did wrong than to continue > to do things manually. > > Please can we keep things simple..? Gentoo is such a great > distribution, complexity has the potential to diminish it from its > current (IMO) near perfection. Surely there are far better things for > inclusion in Portage3. Iis there any timeframe on that, BTW..? I agree. I also tried genkernel once and took an instant dislike to it. I'd prefer it if more effort were put into the ability to switch kernels without having always to remerge nvidia, lm+sensors and the like cf. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1477 Peter -- ====================================================================== Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22_pre2-gss) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ ====================================================================== -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list