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From: Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE="minimal" for kernel sources
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:12:31
Message-Id: 4331D9A9.9090205@egr.msu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE="minimal" for kernel sources by Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen
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4 Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote:
5 > On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 20:01 +0100, John Mylchreest wrote:
6 >
7 >>For the record, there is a bug open for this. (#64009)
8 >>Personally, I'm not keen on the idea.
9 >>the only way which we can do this is by detecting which arch we are
10 >>installing the sources, for, which immediately means many installs of
11 >>USE=minimal are not the same.
12 >
13 >
14 > I'm the reporter of the above mentioned bug (which for the record
15 > was /only 1 year old/ September 14. I love the response time :-) )
16 > I was just made aware of this discussion, so sorry about the late
17 > response.
18 >
19 > I really can't see the problem with several installs being dissimilar.
20 >
21 >
22 >>There are plenty of other reasons I can go into, but if anyone feels
23 >>strongly to push this change, then feel free to reply with justification
24 >>as to why. Technical info to back it up as well please :)
25 >
26 >
27 > The only real difficulty I can see is that the kernel-devs sometimes
28 > pull includes from other arcs. This will cause compile errors, and under
29 > no circumstances any runtime problems. If the use flag also comes with a
30 > warning that use is on your own peril, and support is not given. Too bad
31 > for the people ignoring the warning.
32 I could see some sort of pmasked ebuild that did this. Other than that
33 though, I wouldn't want users to be able to touch it. It's well known
34 that pmasked stuff isn't supported. One can't add a use flag to an
35 ebuild and then turn around and say oh that use flag isn't supported.
36 If it's not supported it shouldn't be there.
37
38 Also might want to submit the ebuild to breakmygentoo or some other
39 overlay.
40
41 - -Alec Warner (antarus)
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