On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 21:55:23 +0200
Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I believe that end users would benefit more from kernel binary ebuilds
> (ebuilds building an actual kernel with an official config), rather
> than all this.
> 

There's been a start on this, but we're looking at you now; feel free
to communicate with Zero_Chaos about this to clarify why and how you do
certain matters, make sure (just ping me on IRC after a conversation 
with him or so) I can follow along so I can more easily bring this into
the Portage tree; as at least someone on the kernel herd needs to
understand what is going on with all of that

There is a bug filed for this with some work from him.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472906

Separate from this whole thread; we definitely have some thoughts about
this in mind, and I'll give you one cool thought: Having the kernel
build the sources can allow the kernel to automatically rebuild out of
kernel modules; eg. `emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel` and it will
rebuild nvidia-drivers, virtualbox, ... Of course, for this to work we
would need to propagate sub slot rebuilds through virtuals.

We thinked through some possible problems and solutions that appear;
but I would like to keep them out of this ML thread; as to not mix a
thought out idea with one that does some early circles in our minds.

On a side note; I'm currently testing genpatches using an ebuild I
hacked together myself, allows me to test the way eclass does the
patches as well as include some neat local QA checks and testing magic.

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With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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