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On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:44, C. Brewer wrote: |
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> Okay, this part comes across barely intelligible, but if it helps |
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> substitute TARGET= for SLOT=.. of course I did point out it was a |
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> suggestion, not a solution, and you have offered up what counterproposal? |
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> "I" don't want to have it depend on a running kernel, or on a symlink, All |
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> I was saying is that in most cases it'd probably be just easier to boot |
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> into a running kernel and build your non-essential mod package, I realize |
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> that this is not always the case. |
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> > Yes, this thread invoked a lot of hot emotions from my side. |
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> > // Spider |
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> Well, guess what? I was pretty pissed off _before_ I saw your mail, so you |
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> can imagine where I'm at now, especially since I've asked a couple of times |
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> why this symlink is necessary, when it's highly discouraged. If a package |
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> needs this symlink, mask it, get it fixed upstream or dont carry it at all |
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> ffs. I point out the bad ones when I see them, and I atleast proffered a |
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> suggestion. I was civil when this was a discussion, but turning this into a |
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> pissing match was sheer stupidity. But I guess I'm just the stupid end user |
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> with no say, I guess? Atleast when I'm being a prick, I only represent me. |
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This symlink is not highly discouraged. It is highly discouraged to use a |
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plain kernel tree as source for the /usr/include/linux headers. Those |
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symlinks mean problems. It is also discouraged to assume that /usr/src/linux |
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points to the RUNNING kernel, those sources can be found by /lib/modules/ |
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`uname -r`/build. However in this case we want a way against which kernel |
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modules should be build. |
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I wonder why you insist on having an awkward, notworking way of doing so. |
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Gentoo is about unattended installs. Such an environment variable violates |
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it. Further it would break initial installs. When one does an emerge kde |
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after system is just merged, it will pull in a kernel source (for alsa), |
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however if you don't specify your variable building alsa-driver still fails. |
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However the kernel sources automatically install the linux symlink if it did |
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not exist yet (but not change it if it did). Of course we could use another |
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name/location, but I don't see the point. |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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