Re: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6

[Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org>]

В Вск, 24/07/2011 в 17:20 +0200, Ulrich Mueller пишет:
> >>>>> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Stratos Psomadakis wrote:
> > On 07/23/2011 07:09 PM, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote:
> >> Currently virtual/linux-sources-2.6 depends on sys-kernel/foo-2.6*,
> >> should we create virtual/linux-sources-3.0 (and start fixing
> >> ebuilds depending on =virtual/linux-sources-2.6) or just change
> >> virtual/linux-sources-2.6 to depend on >=2.6 ? Opinions?
> 
> Currently version 3.0 is only available with vanilla-sources and
> gentoo-sources. Therefore the problem is that virtual/linux-sources-3
> would pull in one of these even for users of other *-sources (e.g.
> hardened).
> 
> On the other hand, allowing versions 3.* as dependency of
> virtual/linux-sources-2.6 might be confusing.
> 
> Therefore, my suggestion would be as follows:
> 1. Temporarily change the dependency in virtual/linux-sources-2.6
>    to >=2.6 in order to resolve the current issues with dependencies.
> 2. Later, when most of *-sources are available in version 3.*, revert
>    linux-sources-2.6 to the current dependency and create
>    virtual/linux-sources-3. (I think the version should be just 3 and
>    not 3.0, unless you want a virtual for 3.0, 3.1, etc.)

What are the benefits here?

> Or, a completely different approach: Drop the versioning of the
> virtual altogether and have only virtual/linux-sources-0. (This might
> cause some minor problems for users of 2.4 profiles, but I'd guess
> that the remaining users are experienced enough to handle that.)

And what are the benefits here?

It's better to fix what's broken part and avoid fixing something that
works...

--
Peter.