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From: Daniel Ostrow <dostrow@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: New drivers category in portage (Was [gentoo-dev] macos mess)
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:09:34
Message-Id: 41044B4B.70103@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] macos mess by Donnie Berkholz
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4 I wholeheartedly agree, we need driers to be separated out, esp. now
5 since we are going to be supporting multiple kernel types (obsd, mach,
6 linux, etc.) and I second spyderous' suggestion of drivers-${TYPE}.
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8 - -Dan
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10 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
11 | On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 11:53, Alastair Tse wrote:
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13 |>Do we have a sys-drivers or something equivalent? I would argue that
14 |>this is needed because the sheer amount of drivers available. We don't
15 |>want to start polluting sys-kernels with darwin drivers, do we?
16 |>
17 |>HOWEVER, I agree that it is premature to setup a category where there
18 |>are no plans to even merge these drivers into portage for the next
19 |>month or so.
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22 | I've been talking about something like this for a while. My idea,
23 | however, is more like drivers-${TYPE}, where TYPE is video, net or
24 | whatever else.
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