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From: Peter Ruskin <aoyu93@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 16:50:16
Message-Id: 200310041750.48198.aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree by Stroller
1 On Saturday 04 Oct 2003 14:33, Stroller wrote:
2 > I am sure I am doing a huge injustice to the author of genkernel, but
3 > it's more hassle for me to find out what I did wrong than to continue
4 > to do things manually.
5 >
6 > Please can we keep things simple..? Gentoo is such a great
7 > distribution, complexity has the potential to diminish it from its
8 > current (IMO) near perfection. Surely there are far better things for
9 > inclusion in Portage3. Iis there any timeframe on that, BTW..?
10
11 I agree. I also tried genkernel once and took an instant dislike to it.
12
13 I'd prefer it if more effort were put into the ability to switch kernels
14 without having always to remerge nvidia, lm+sensors and the like cf.
15 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1477
16
17 Peter
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