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From: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-kernel@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:03:28
Message-Id: 1311540702.16903.9.camel@tablet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6 by Ulrich Mueller
1 В Вск, 24/07/2011 в 17:20 +0200, Ulrich Mueller пишет:
2 > >>>>> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Stratos Psomadakis wrote:
3 > > On 07/23/2011 07:09 PM, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote:
4 > >> Currently virtual/linux-sources-2.6 depends on sys-kernel/foo-2.6*,
5 > >> should we create virtual/linux-sources-3.0 (and start fixing
6 > >> ebuilds depending on =virtual/linux-sources-2.6) or just change
7 > >> virtual/linux-sources-2.6 to depend on >=2.6 ? Opinions?
8 >
9 > Currently version 3.0 is only available with vanilla-sources and
10 > gentoo-sources. Therefore the problem is that virtual/linux-sources-3
11 > would pull in one of these even for users of other *-sources (e.g.
12 > hardened).
13 >
14 > On the other hand, allowing versions 3.* as dependency of
15 > virtual/linux-sources-2.6 might be confusing.
16 >
17 > Therefore, my suggestion would be as follows:
18 > 1. Temporarily change the dependency in virtual/linux-sources-2.6
19 > to >=2.6 in order to resolve the current issues with dependencies.
20 > 2. Later, when most of *-sources are available in version 3.*, revert
21 > linux-sources-2.6 to the current dependency and create
22 > virtual/linux-sources-3. (I think the version should be just 3 and
23 > not 3.0, unless you want a virtual for 3.0, 3.1, etc.)
24
25 What are the benefits here?
26
27 > Or, a completely different approach: Drop the versioning of the
28 > virtual altogether and have only virtual/linux-sources-0. (This might
29 > cause some minor problems for users of 2.4 profiles, but I'd guess
30 > that the remaining users are experienced enough to handle that.)
31
32 And what are the benefits here?
33
34 It's better to fix what's broken part and avoid fixing something that
35 works...
36
37 --
38 Peter.