From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16667 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Oct 2003 03:47:37 -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 16978 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2003 03:47:30 -0000 From: "C. Brewer" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:11:52 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <4866.146.176.63.67.1066740482.squirrel@mail.codewordt.co.uk> <200310211044.48299.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> <1066767342.14019.11.camel@orange-pc.ces.clemson.edu> In-Reply-To: <1066767342.14019.11.camel@orange-pc.ces.clemson.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_6Vfl/B5WsTFckxk"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310212011.54176.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE Linux 2.6.x X-Archives-Salt: e8b63244-287f-412b-830b-a9913b64a021 X-Archives-Hash: 72dfb2ee895f6904231356405007f018 --Boundary-02=_6Vfl/B5WsTFckxk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 21 October 2003 1:15, Grant Goodyear wrote: > So you move the sources from /usr/src/ to /opt, or you don't use the > various kernel-sources ebuilds? If you're moving the sources, what > makes /opt better than /usr/src? Actually, I used to rsync the tree to my home dir, but that became tedious = and=20 time consuming, as well as trying to inject enough stuff to satisfy all the= =20 virtuals became a headache. So yes, I move the sources to /opt, and it's no= t=20 a "better" thing..but packages dont look for /opt/usr/src/linux-* either.=20 Makes it easier to spot an offending package and try to get it fixed/ resolved. > Incidentally, I'm quite glad that /usr/src/linux is the target of a lot > of our ebuilds, since it's fairly common for me to build and install > alsa, pcmcia, and nvidia modules for the kernel I'm about to boot into. > (Why do I want to build the modules before rebooting? Because that way I > don't have to spend twenty minutes in console mode before I can have > working sound, video, and networking.) Perfectly understandable, if you have that many modules needing built, I'd= =20 probably want to build it beforehand, also. But for one or two non-critical packages, it would be easier to be running the kernel they need to go to. B= ut=20 as my disclaimer, I did point out a nice selectable interface for choosing= =20 the target kernel would be preferred over the current symlink solution. =20 =2D-=20 Chuck Brewer Registered Linux User #284015 Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred. --Boundary-02=_6Vfl/B5WsTFckxk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/lfV5GmszwkJY878RAp8cAKC6xiIdLNcGk8cngRGFGsEjahcflwCgzIoD kXyRcD5BnJIvZeaItmHh7wQ= =6jK7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_6Vfl/B5WsTFckxk--