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On 17/09/14 16:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 17/09/2014 14:49, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: |
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>> On 2014-09-17 14:20, vivo75@×××××.com wrote: |
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>>> Il 17/09/2014 14:09, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto ha scritto: |
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>>>> On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Luca Barbato wrote: |
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>>>>> The bc utility is part of the posix tools and it might be used to build |
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>>>>> linux among the other stuff. |
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>>>> Luca, |
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>>>> bc is not in the system set and is a dependency of the kernel or any |
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>>>> other package that needs it, so why do we need to include a package |
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>>>> that takes ~20 seconds to build? |
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>>> Most people don't use the ebuild for the kernel |
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>> That's a rather outrageous and difficult to substantiate claim. Given |
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>> what I've seen in the forums and on IRC, it would appear the reverse |
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>> is true; most people use the ebuild for the kernel. |
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>> I wouldn't consider people who deviate from the supported methods as |
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>> our concern. If you're smart enough to do that and want to make your |
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>> own path, you're smart enough to emerge bc. |
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> Agreed. I've been on -user for 10+ years and only a very few fetch their |
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> kernels directly from upstream. The vast majority of users who have |
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> described how they do it simply emerge one of the source packages just |
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> like the handbook says to do. |
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> There's an even split between genkernel users and those who make |
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> menuconfig (100% unscientific survey taken from my brain and nowhere else) |
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I've never used gentoo-sources in my life, and always fetched sources by |
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hand from kernel.org, |
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but, at the same time, I find it's 100% my own responsibility to cover |
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any fallout from that, |
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including manually emerging required dependencies. |
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- Samuli |
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