From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDTAM-0000ls-LU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:38:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j88KYDPn030849; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:34:13 GMT Received: from mail.polybottom.org (polybottom.org [66.220.1.110]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j88KWMje015030 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:32:23 GMT Received: from [10.10.10.53] ([::ffff:12.45.184.236]) (AUTH: LOGIN brian@brianandsara.net, SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by mail.polybottom.org with esmtp; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:36:04 -0500 id 00010514.4320A0B4.0000404E Message-ID: <4320A0B1.3040001@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:36:01 -0500 From: Brian Jackson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE="minimal" for kernel sources References: <431C97C4.3070406@gentoo.org> <1126203005.5845.81.camel@alto> <200509082017.33985@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <1126206101.9553.5.camel@localhost> <43209BB0.7050602@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <43209BB0.7050602@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j88KYDRN030849 X-Archives-Salt: d3af7c56-184b-4d24-977d-9c7ae5c9920d X-Archives-Hash: 0b2dffbbbf7ea0e87e746a204cffd676 At one time we had a problem with gentoo sources having way too many use = flags=20 and patches which lead to there being an incalculable number of ways that= gentoo=20 -sources could turn out. It was a pita to maintain. A pita to troubleshoo= t.=20 There were weird bugs that we couldn't reproduce easily. Basically, it wa= s one=20 of the worst packages to maintain in Gentoo. We had to adopt an attitude = of=20 complete loathing for kernel source packages having multiple outcomes. Th= is=20 loathing is probably still embedded somewhere in all of us that have been= on the=20 kernel team at one point or another. --Iggy Jan Kundr=E1t wrote: > John Mylchreest wrote: >=20 >>For the record, there is a bug open for this. (#64009) >>Personally, I'm not keen on the idea. >>the only way which we can do this is by detecting which arch we are >>installing the sources, for, which immediately means many installs of >>USE=3Dminimal are not the same. >=20 >=20 > Er, but why is this a problem? Does it matter that the package will > install different files on x86 than on mips? Or am I just overlooking > the point? >=20 > -jkt >=20 --=20 I top post... suck it --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list