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From: Ben Kohler <bkohler@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles?
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 18:08:56
Message-Id: CANSUr=KkkbC3DtrZO7ZZ6GVcqTUjyrUBDqPPxjdsPUSmGYOpXg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles? by Tom Wijsman
1 On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > Good idea, we really could use some kind of kernel seeds in the Portage
4 > tree; if someone is willing to maintain them, knowing that Pappy has
5 > maintained them for years and spoke about it it seems like hard work.
6 >
7 > Remember that these "kernel seeds" are actually pretty far from what we
8 need for genkernel defaults (at least the way we currently recommend using
9 it in our install handbook). The kernel seeds provide a good sane kernel
10 config *with little or no specific hardware support*.
11
12 But I'm definitely in favor of separately packaging the kernel configs.
13
14 -Ben

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