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On Sunday 05 October 2003 23:41, Sami Näätänen wrote: |
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> On Sunday 05 October 2003 14:30, Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 05 October 2003 14:22, Kevyn Shortell wrote: |
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> > > I don't think anyone has an argument with making things easier, but |
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> > > we shouldn't make things easier for new users to the detriment of |
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> > > making things more difficult for everyone else. There is a point |
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> > > where Gentoo just might be more advanced than a new user is skill |
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> > > wise, and accept that. |
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> > Nobody's talking about making things harder for everyone else. |
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> > "emerge linux-gentoo-src" as Luke-Jr suggested is detrimentally |
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> > difficult when compared to "emerge gentoo-sources" is it? 2 extra |
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> > keystrokes?! There are also many people saying that Gentoo might just |
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> > be too hard for lusers. Why then was genkernel created in the first |
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> > place? |
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> I'm certainly in favor of making the -src thing to active, because it |
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> really gives people the full power. For example I have some times |
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> wanted to look the code used in a package. I of course can simply untar |
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> the tarball somewhere, but if the package contains multiple tarballs I |
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> either has to find them, or start to ebuild package.ebuild unpack stuff |
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> and then move the source tree from the temp location to somewhere where |
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> it is not going to be overwriten. I although don't suggest that -src |
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> suffix, but an option to the emerge, which tells it to install this |
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> software to package's SLOT="$P-src", from which I then could be looking |
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> in $PORT_SRC_DIR/$P-src. |
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Agreed here. An option to emerge is much more intuitive. |
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> Oh and the kernel packages that would compile the kernel should install |
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> the kernel headers of the compiled kernel to |
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> /usr/src/linux-`uname -r`/include/ |
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> so that any package that needs the real kernel headers can find them. |
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Er, I'm pretty sure that the packages that need the source in /usr/src/linux |
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need more than just the headers - but don't quote me on that! |
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Regards, |
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Jason |
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