From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBDjq-00026n-NC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:27:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id m05IPoBF029067; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:25:50 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m05ILRHC024219 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:21:28 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C2A64F39 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:21:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.699 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.699 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.100, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id YztvROKd6NyH for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:21:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F9564A10 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:21:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JBDe1-0003yz-5L for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:21:17 +0000 Received: from adsl-75-3-178-22.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net ([75.3.178.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:21:17 +0000 Received: from reader by adsl-75-3-178-22.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:21:17 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: reader@newsguy.com Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:21:09 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87odc0w2ui.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87r6gwxnpu.fsf@newsguy.com> <200801051719.43862.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <87abnkxkay.fsf@newsguy.com> <200801051832.25820.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-75-3-178-22.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vtCaQDsgkpGacQb3tBaUZqBvQQo= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 0091ed39-1ee5-41c0-9e52-ba7d2b9492a8 X-Archives-Hash: 84c02aea909221b23ec163a5ffdb2feb "Hemmann, Volker Armin" writes: I think this is heading in direction different from what I intended. You seem to be arguing that it can be done quickly... I don't disagree with you. If like you say you mostly follow what ever is default unless you know what you are doing. But if that is what you do then genkernel is even quicker... Not in compile time but to decide is not more than `genkernal all'. So I haven't been saying it can't be done quickly. (If you depend largely on defaults). The os designers have seen to it that the defaults will produce a working kernel. And they are pretty good at it. I'm not complaining that the process provided is overly hard. (If you mostly follow defaults) In the very first post I said: >> For 8 or 9 yrs now I've mostly skirted the issue by using defaults. That is all you suggest too. Skirt the issue by using defaults. >> If you wanted to pare down all the junk that is in a default >> config... now you are taking days even weeks to get a handle on that. > > to de-junk a default config - even if you don't know what you do, is > in realm of half an hour to an hour. If you read everything. Do you have a de-junked .config that I can diff against the default.. it would be a way to see what kinds of things get dropped. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list