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On Saturday 04 October 2003 2:51 pm, Bob Johnson wrote: |
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> I think many of our devs need to sit in #gentoo a little more often and |
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> watch new users struggle with there first kernel build. |
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> The whole purpose of genkernel is to help at this stage. Its pretty |
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> frustrating for a user to spend all day installing gentoo, then cannot |
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> get it to boot. |
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> Its not for everyone, its not perfect. and it was never |
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> intended to takeover any part of sys-kernel. |
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> I wrote it and dont even use it except for testing.. |
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> Bob |
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I've nothing against genkernel. Never used it, never planning to ;-) I do |
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think users who can't compile a kernel are going to find other problems with |
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using Gentoo, but hey - we all started somewhere ;-) |
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I'm just objecting to what (on the face of it) appear to be far-reaching and |
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far-fetched ideas to fundamentally change how kernels are handled. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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