Re: [gentoo-dev] Patches and the 2.4->2.6 move

[Alexander Gretencord]

On Monday 20 October 2003 04:34, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> This means that if a user emerges xfree when linked to a 2.4 kernel,
> that user will need to remerge xfree after moving to 2.6 kernels. This
> takes about 40 minutes on a ~2GHz x86.

Well 40 minutes on 2GHz ist a lot more time on a 1GHz system. I recently built 
gentoo on my laptop (1.1GHz) and it took more than 12 hours for (not all of) 
kde. With X and gcc and whatnot it would have been quite more. Of course 
every package only adds an hour or two but it still sums up. I merged gtk+ 
with -O just to avoid upgrading to xfree-4.3.0-r3 and even that took quite 
some time.

> 1) Is this acceptable?
> 2) If not, what is a better solution? Dropping the patch entirely? Note
> that I don't know Mesa/programming well enough to write a patch
> compatible for both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

At least don't put the reason for this into a postinst notice. I'd hate to 
merge a new xfree, just to see a notice (after hours of compiling) about 
breakage. If you break something, tell me _before_ I merge the package.


Alex


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