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On Saturday 04 October 2003 06:27 pm, Patrick Börjesson wrote: |
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> But then the question is: Why? We already have the source unpacked in |
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> /var/tmp/portage/*/work so why "move" it to /usr/src? |
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One could say the same for /var/tmp/portage/*/image... Why put it there and |
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move it to /? |
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> There are already |
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> ways for people to do the configure- and make-steps them selves if they |
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> wish (through the ebuild-command as you yourself said). As I see it |
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> there would be no advantage reimplementing it the proposed way... |
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Nothing in /var/tmp should be expected to continue to exist any longer than |
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the process which created them is running. They usually do, but they should |
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not be expected to. |
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> As for the kernels to be auto-configured, why not do it the same way as |
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> some other packages do it: have an extra section in the ebuild that |
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> configures the kernel for you through genkernel... Several other |
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> packages already have this section (think it's called config) including |
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> postresql. This could be advertised in the same way as in the |
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> postresql-ebuild at the end of the emerge-command, and thus everybody |
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> has a choice in how they would like to configure and compile the kernel. |
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As it is right now, there is no choice. Implementation of the idea would add |
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an option, and emerging linux-src would do the same as emerging |
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vanilla-sources does right now. |
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