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From: Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or
should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles?
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On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> No, I don't agree that kernel configs "belong" to kernel packages. In
> general, barring the crazy option explosion, these are meant to be stock
> working configs that should in combination with ANY kernel package,
> produce a working kernel.
>
Then you are just moving the problem around.
I believe that kernel configs should be provided by their own kernel
packages (and there are some, not just gentoo-sources) because it is
much easier to keep them in sync on every new release and deal with
each version separately if/as needed (including testing!). How are you
dealing with config var name changes between different kernel versions
or just different pkgs then?
You cannot possibly support all kernel versions for all kernel pkgs
available in tree with just one single config file in a sane, clean
and maintainable way, hoping that a change in this file will not
affect previous or future kernel releases. How are you going to test
your config changes against old kernel pkgs? Each test is quite
expensive to run.
Good luck with that :-)
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Fabio Erculiani