Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidance on adding kernel config checks to ebuilds

[Peter Stuge]

Mike Gilbert wrote:
> It's a waste of time and effort to pepper random ebuilds with checks
> for options that everyone should have enabled in the first place.

It's not for you to say what everyone should have enabled in their kernel.

There's significant value in ebuilds documenting required kernel options in
a structured manner.

So I welcome simplifications in the checking to achieve millisecond
test times. But the benefit of structured requirements is given even
without any runtime checking at all, as long as required options
continue to be codified /somehow/.


Thank you for your work!

//Peter