* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7
@ 2018-01-01 9:00 99% ` Peter Humphrey
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From: Peter Humphrey @ 2018-01-01 9:00 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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.
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