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Am Dienstag, 21. April 2020, 17:47:08 CEST schrieb Ashley Dixon: |
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> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 06:33:05PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > On 21/04/2020 18:05, Gerion Entrup wrote: |
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> > > gentoo-kernel: ??? |
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> > Unfortunately he didn't say anything about gentoo-kernel-bin. So... no idea. |
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> gentoo-kernel-bin is, as its description on packages.gentoo.org would suggest: a |
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> pre-built kernel---hence the 'bin' suffix. This is not uncommon in Gentoo, c.f. |
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> www-client/firefox-bin or dev-java/gradle-bin. In fact, there are currently |
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> eighty-eight such packages in Portage. |
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> They're just provided for convenience, when people don't want to spend ages |
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> compiling some massive software on their fifteen-year-old C.P.U. In the case of |
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> Firefox, legal issues with enabling official branding can also sometimes concern |
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> the binary distribution. |
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Thank you for the explanations. I also dug around a bit in the kernel-build.eclass and the ebuilds. |
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My summary then is: |
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gentoo-sources: vanilla source tree + gentoo-patches (no automatic compiling etc.). |
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gentoo-kernel: take gentoo-sources as source, the kernel .config file from Arch Linux and then compile and install it automatically with portage. |
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gentoo-kernel-bin: The precompiled version of gentoo-kernel (except of the initramfs that has to be generated on a per PC basis). |
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