Re: [gentoo-dev] Patches and the 2.4->2.6 move

[Jon Portnoy]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:16:08AM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
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> On Monday 20 October 2003 03:20 am, Brandon Hale wrote:
> > It appears that the larger part of our user base is running a 2.4 series
> > kernel, and will be for quite some time. Considering this, and our position
> > that testing kernels are not offically supported, I think we should give
> > priority to fixing bugs that affect the most users.
> I was thinking that once 2.6.0 was final, the kernel people would (hopefully)
> release a gentoo-sources using 2.6 in unstable... If this is not the case,
> would anyone mind if love-sources were to be added to the portage tree or is
> there any reason not to?

Yes.

The last thing we need is more kernel sources in the tree, especially 
from amateurs.

The kernel people will get a 2.6 kernel out when it's ready to be used, 
I'd assume. 

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