From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13571 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Oct 2003 02:06:39 -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 17256 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2003 02:06:39 -0000 Message-ID: <3F7F7CB9.3030106@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 22:06:49 -0400 From: Kumba Reply-To: kumba@gentoo.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310041357.52026.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <20031004161307.GA2251@cerberus.oppresses.us> <200310050828.34578.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> <3F7F6307.1080001@gentoo.org> <20031005002509.GE78513@james.is.never.wrong.nu> In-Reply-To: <20031005002509.GE78513@james.is.never.wrong.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: 6eeb5b1a-7cd4-42eb-ade8-1b6a80173029 X-Archives-Hash: b5e9a041626b9efc5abce0c2fc767803 James Harlow wrote: [snip] > Well, this isn't true, it wouldn't take more than a couple hundred. Of > course, this would be pretty difficult to sift through by hand... [snip] A couple hundred? I think that alone justifies my statetment that x86 is far too diverse to configure via USE Flags. We already have 176 global useflags (line count in /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc) and 187 local useflags (line count in /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc). All these useflags are spread across the ~5000 packages in Portage. Adding another "couple hundred" specifically for x86 kernels alone is overkill to the point of using C4 explosive to clear out a yellow jacket nest in the ground. --Kumba -- "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list