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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources stabilization policy change
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:20:49
Message-Id: 51F40F74.8060001@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources stabilization policy change by Alexander Berntsen
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4 Alexander Berntsen schrieb:
5 > On 27/07/13 10:56, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
6 >> How about dropping vanilla-sources and adding a "vanilla" USE flag to
7 >> gentoo-sources?
8 > Then we might as well just have a Linux package with a bunch of USE
9 > flags -- gentoo, hardened, libre, tuxonice, ck, etc.
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11 I don't think this can be made work, the other kernel packages' releases
12 may not happen simultaneously with kernel releases. Or they may even skip
13 certain releases.
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15 Rich Freeman schrieb:
16 > Unless it were stable-masked it would create the exact same problem.
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18 vanilla flags are not package.use.stable.mask'ed for toolchain packages
19 either, yet they go stable with them. And there, USE=vanilla might cause
20 serious breakage even.
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22 > There was another suggestion to try to manage the patch sets via the
23 > kernel config system, but that isn't without its own challenges.
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25 vanilla = don't apply any patches, I don't think that could be improved by
26 any modification to the kernel config system.
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29 Best regards,
30 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
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