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Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: [Fri Jul 16 2004, 06:30:53PM EDT] |
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> As an interested desktop user, I'm curious about the devs' opinions on |
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> this recent thread in gentoo-user: |
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> |
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> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/89620 |
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I think it's safe to say that ciaranm is engaging in hyperbole in his |
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assertion that "Everyone agrees gentoo-sources is full of garbage". (Or |
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perhaps he's claiming that pretty much everybody who looks at the |
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gentoo-* patch set will decide there's at least one patch that doesn't |
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matter to him or her, and thus is "extraneous garbage"; it seems that |
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nobody asked him to clarify what he meant.) In any event, I run |
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gentoo-sources and gentoo-dev-sources on all of my x86 machines, and in |
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general I find that when I encounter a broken kernel it's broken in |
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vanilla- as well. The converse is not necessarily true, however, as |
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gentoo-* kernels are often patched w/ bug fixes before they make it into |
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the vanilla kernel. (It's worth noting that ciaranm works w/ sparc |
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hardware, so his experiences may be quite different from mine.) |
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Best, |
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g2boojum |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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