From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2018 09:00:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2545447.NgVXI1XNxA@peak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171231184606.ndr7otg3vadk26zu@matica.foolinux.mooo.com>
On Sunday, 31 December 2017 18:46:06 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2017-12-31 01:56, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > If you don't mind my asking, what factors make you prefer vanilla to
> > gentoo sources? (I assume that's what you use.)
>
> One reason is security fixes. Sometimes longterm vanilla already
> includes the fixes from mainline, and when it does not, I know that the
> diff will nearly always apply because they are just two branches of the
> same git tree.
>
> The other reason is the extra kconfig options in the gentoo sources,
> which are on by default and I don't want any of them. I don't remember
> anymore but I _think_ at some point it wouldn't let me turn them off
> without extreme violence.
Interesting. Thanks.
--
Regards,
Peter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-01 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-21 15:41 [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7 Jörg Schaible
2017-12-24 6:59 ` Raymond Jennings
2017-12-25 10:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Jörg Schaible
2017-12-25 17:27 ` Mick
2017-12-28 21:39 ` Raymond Jennings
2017-12-29 23:48 ` Kai Krakow
2018-01-01 14:20 ` Jörg Schaible
2017-12-30 0:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2017-12-30 22:16 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2017-12-30 22:26 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-12-30 23:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-31 0:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2017-12-31 0:42 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-31 1:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-31 1:56 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-31 8:16 ` Bill Kenworthy
2017-12-31 18:46 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-01-01 9:00 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2018-01-01 14:27 ` Jörg Schaible
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