[gentoo-dev] Re: 2024-02-26-debianutils-drops-installkernel-dep: add news item

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:13:32 +0100 as
excerpted:

> Removing sys-kernel/installkernel from your system WILL change the way
> kernels are installed by 'make install'! Instead of the versioned
> /boot/vmlinuz-x.y.z that you are used to, 'make install' will simply
> copy bzImage (or equivalent for you arch) into /boot. This image may not
> be picked up by your bootloader or its configuration tools.

I'm uncomfortable with that unconditional, "SHOUTED" even, "WILL".

That isn't the case here -- I've been getting versioned images without the 
debianutils-based installkernel script for years.

I long ago (when installkernel was still part of debianutils according to 
comments in my version, presumably the debianutils default-enabled USE was 
set when it was split out to avoid just this sort of surprise at that 
time) created my own version based on the debianutils version, but 
bashified/comment-and-var-name-clarified and with a config file that 
determines various behavior (along with behavior for my other kernel-
related build/patch/config/etc scripts).

Maybe "will likely", or "will, unless you've specifically configured other 
behavior", or "will, unless you've previously setup your own solution"?  
("Will" can then be SHOUTED or not, as desired, because the statement is 
then sufficiently conditional regardless.)

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