Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree

[Donnie Berkholz]

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 23:56, Luke-Jr wrote:
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> On Saturday 04 October 2003 02:25 am, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> > You're not suggesting anything that provides a tangible benefit, you're
> > just suggesting expanding our tree to do something we already do. That
> > doesn't make sense.
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> As it is currently done, Portage cannot track the kernel itself, only the
> kernel sources. Also, it leaves the kernel in /usr/src/linux when it isn't
> really needed once installed except perhaps to save configuration (which
> genkernel has stuff for) and object files to speed future compilations (which
> Portage should do if you keep /var/tmp/portage around anyway).
> It makes little sense to compile and install other packages but not compile
> and install Linux itself.
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And all the kernel module ebuilds.