From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S7wP6-0000vW-Db for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:10:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1ACB0E08C7; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f52.google.com (mail-pz0-f52.google.com [209.85.210.52]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB00AE0828 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dadp12 with SMTP id p12so3591908dad.11 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:09:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=EVhqaudE9/r7ibeE1saEGSbN4wxM9JxwHuh77JafsIk=; b=oqXXSF6SGjvsnXGcOxHcd8+8HWKU1hqF5tXZ+UOFMb6KGNY8NOXjEWKFRVCZb6iP+K beG234Sd7d5lf5G2i1J5gaBWnv7y1AYB69uydiEN1BAgwX+nP+bguszw4e2kDqe0zVUg Ldobw2AWXKw7NW/DqTbZ79GEwvBwDe/pfytiOo6ZBUwkMMbRdQOfM/UInz/xRGTOO64R QYZiXtBOYQn9hkGiRaqUT604VmB5Ija8nCaUBAdmDRa3swsxK3M2/Ira95RPx0HrbqN4 9AY/xuZb6az62b2RMtEVvy8ZsvSbx5mLnj0Wsey/WS0qP5MaYUggnc7d+/QuN22saNNK ed0g== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.74.74 with SMTP id r10mr5374648pbv.83.1331762973082; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.197.41 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:09:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120314214310.GC32344@waltdnes.org> References: <20111115062115.GA3262@waltdnes.org> <20111121104724.GC7461@waltdnes.org> <20111201194544.GD4455@waltdnes.org> <20120217234045.GA25390@waltdnes.org> <20120311090912.GA23850@waltdnes.org> <20120311213448.GB25554@waltdnes.org> <20120313204535.GB2430@waltdnes.org> <28075bf582f03525b692aa5b7df33387.squirrel@www.antarean.org> <20120314214310.GC32344@waltdnes.org> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:09:33 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 6 From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: a92a245d-e37e-403a-a7f7-9fbc55c610dc X-Archives-Hash: 1fe6d8e5bbc33981bf04cff195d6f580 On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:15:52PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote > >> Wouldn't a good solution be to have the ebuild modified to only >> install those binary blobs you actually need? =C2=A0Eg. similar to how >> apache or sane modules are configured? > > =C2=A0The tarball on the AMD website has all the binary blobs bundled > together. =C2=A0The ebuild simply downloads the tarball and extracts it t= o > the correct library directory. =C2=A0You could do it manually. =C2=A0The = problem > with separate ebuilds is that one ebuild would be replaced with a couple > of dozen ebuilds, or one ebuild with a couple of dozen custom USE flags. You could use an use-expand variable, like INPUT_DEVICES or VIDEO_CARDS for xorg-drivers, or DRACUT_MODULES for dracut. It sounds like the smart thing to do. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico