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>>>>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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>> s/If/If and only if/ and I'll be fine with it. :) |
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> Are you proposing that the ebuild inspect the user's hardware and/or |
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> kernel config before printing a warning? |
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Of course not. |
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> That sounds like a terrible idea to me. Who is going to maintain the |
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> problematic hardware list? |
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> I do think it would be nice to give people a way to opt-out of seeing |
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> this warning message every time they install a kernel though. |
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IMHO this type of message just adds noise to emerge output, which |
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elsewhere we have fought to reduce (using readme.gentoo-r1.eclass, |
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for example). |
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So yes, you need to install a kernel, a bootloader, and maybe some |
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specific system tools and firmware. All of this is documented in the |
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handbook [1], and for the others we don't display messages all the time |
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if we divine that something could be possibly missing. |
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Anyway, this is just about verboseness of output. I think I've made my |
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point, so I'll shut up now. :) |
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Ulrich |
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Kernel#Optional:_Installing_firmware |
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