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On Saturday 04 October 2003 2:10 pm, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> You could always 'emerge linux-src' if Portage were to add the -src suffix |
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> as I described. |
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And what would that give me? The current range of sources in Portage gives me |
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a nice selection of choice. Personally, I'm very happy with it. |
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> I don't think it should modify the configurations, only a few symlinks that |
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> you can ignore if you choose to. |
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No thanks. |
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> If you'd be compiling the kernel for another system, you could have Portage |
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> build only a GRP. As for local dependencies, the development-sources |
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> already depend on the module-init-tools needed to run them even though the |
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> sources don't actually need it. |
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And what about kernel modules that are required? How will those get |
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re-compiled? You can't just re-emerge them, because they have this annoying |
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habit of going and deleting the currently-installed version ... |
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> It might also be worth noting that often |
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> the time between a system update and etc-update, your system could in |
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> theory be unbootable were there to be a power failure. |
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I'm sorry, but I really do think that this idea is both stupid, and more |
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trouble than it's worth. Administrators have been managing their boxes just |
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fine up to now. |
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Stu |
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