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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidance on adding kernel config checks to ebuilds
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:00:40
Message-Id: 9f6b4eb4ce1cb269417da9cfd6e2b258079ec7de.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidance on adding kernel config checks to ebuilds by Mike Gilbert
1 On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 15:44 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 3:11 PM Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote:
3 > >
4 > > Mike Gilbert wrote:
5 > > > It's a waste of time and effort to pepper random ebuilds with checks
6 > > > for options that everyone should have enabled in the first place.
7 > >
8 > > It's not for you to say what everyone should have enabled in their kernel.
9 >
10 > Do you not agree that there are some options that should always be
11 > enabled, or at least that we can assume are enabled?
12 >
13
14 There is a distro/Kconfig in gentoo-sources with,
15
16 config GENTOO_LINUX
17 bool "Gentoo Linux support"
18 ...
19
20 that could be extended to include a set of assumed features; otherwise
21 a sub-setting (default enabled) could be added.