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On Saturday 04 October 2003 01:51 pm, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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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 |
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> > suffix as I described. |
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> And what would that give me? The current range of sources in Portage gives |
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> me a nice selection of choice. Personally, I'm very happy with it. |
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emerge linux-mm-src, then. or emerge linux-redhat-src, if you prefer. |
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> > I don't think it should modify the configurations, only a few symlinks |
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> > that you can ignore if you choose to. |
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> No thanks. |
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Just because you choose not to use it doesn't mean you should be forcing other |
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people not to be able to. This provides the *option* to use it. Options are |
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always best. |
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> > If you'd be compiling the kernel for another system, you could have |
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> > Portage build only a GRP. As for local dependencies, the |
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> > development-sources already depend on the module-init-tools needed to run |
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> > them even though the 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 |
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> annoying habit of going and deleting the currently-installed version ... |
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That annoying habit is what should be fixed, then. Using a bug as a reason to |
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not implement a feature isn't a good idea... =p |
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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 |
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> just fine up to now. |
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For the most part, what I am suggesting is adding options, not removing them. |
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Where people used vanilla-sources in the past (which is quite vague actually; |
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why should one assume -sources means it's Linux?), they would now simply be |
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using linux-src. redhat-sources would be linux-redhat-src. Users who don't |
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care to manually recompile their kernels could move over to using linux or |
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linux-redhat. It would also let people emerge things such as kdelibs-src or |
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apache-src if they wanted to. |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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