From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3DDA3138350 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:42:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99FAAE0ABE; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ed1-f67.google.com (mail-ed1-f67.google.com [209.85.208.67]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F4DEE0AAC for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ed1-f67.google.com with SMTP id g16so11025022eds.1 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:42:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=G4kQY7IoZ71fJ0iWJiBQxgjcJjn2zEWAc9w+4+LQigI=; b=r8rVePVfTcaKFdyRkqx8Ozr1WTeJ7rsHMWMAaxcE7GxJGDShol/5PbHP86wOYFbBJ+ ufYZSbdAbsQgM+conMLjKNiSyP25M4RTjHa+hx6dbUjlxDVcKXdF3az34TfLVAn4oJgN DJZhVGwbrVsLPpGIPMPqur9zBEQKV5ELDG3Tb4sprZ7DXc0pTtPRTKsSpf6Z9Cq+B72N CR1YOsSBnPuUJK/jqr1yAsQmP+30vP20+wBMW0Nb+F5q/HuYZ2K2VN5RW++6GoGHpAiJ EE9fRrGZ2EDJEvR9bSREnrIDOPyngX/TDEfHaZdSnCAHJP/IRBJP9GMSqxml8emf3GpD ermQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AGi0PuYN6MIBYbKaRjTEzf7wfLLYbxb/8vej2ShJkSEbcgcjr1sN3GcN n+65GQfMhUvOBYEvF3C3roUS3ZKoujUKGsllGlkLg0k0BTU= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APiQypJ+wbJtgXuETNMxXD9HPfoFYpIjCcu9UNzp8KEl+KNcb1MZOLSASMBRD0GiH2Cc3oM8MB2fFltOuowFlL4UTQE= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:1d33:: with SMTP id dh19mr9145198edb.338.1587494530717; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:42:10 -0700 (PDT) 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20200421165803.GB187193@redacted> <20200421183317.GC187193@redacted> In-Reply-To: <20200421183317.GC187193@redacted> From: Rich Freeman Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:41:59 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: edd05e29-cd36-4518-b0bc-4dda48ff69b8 X-Archives-Hash: 1ff27a15509522c709446b7c5fe68c9d On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 2:33 PM Consus wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 02:10:54PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 12:58 PM Consus wrote: > > > > > > even distribution kernel is not an > > > official thing, but a desperate attempt of someone to fix things. > > > > > > > Huh? gentoo-sources is in at least as good a shape as I've ever seen > > it. I'd argue it is in better shape than at a lot of times in the > > past. > > Still you have to manually configure things. And I know that Gentoo is > about choice, but configuring kernel is hard. > Sure, but by that standard Gentoo has been dead from day 1. :) I'm all for precompiled kernels or packages that build them from source like any other Gentoo package. However, these have only been a thing since very recently on Gentoo. If they're not 100% working this is more because they're new/etc than any kind of decay. -- Rich