[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-kernel] Proper distribution integration of kernel *-sources, patches and configuration.

[Jeff Horelick]

On 1 July 2013 10:41, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote:
> Hello
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> Please reply to gentoo-dev in case ML daemon changes Reply-To.
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> ### TL; DR ###
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> By introducing feature patches which menu options are disabled by
> default to genpatches, we can deduplicate *-sources maintainers as well
> as large groups of users work. By introducing a distribution section
> in the menuconfig, we can provide options that enable minimal Gentoo
> requirements by default (DEVTMPFS, making Gentoo systems bootable since
> an udev release a long time ago) and other distribution stuff.


I really like this idea. geek-sources has appealed to me massively the
past few months, but i didn't want to risk stability and go with a
kernel from a unofficial overlay. I can not wait to see this in
gentoo-sources and I fully support this idea.