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Mirosław Mieszczak wrote: |
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>> You will see reiserfs4 support on the LiveCD when support for it is |
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>> included upstream in the kernel. The gentoo-sources patchset doesn't (and |
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>> never will) contain "experimental" features like that. |
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> I can only say, what a pity. |
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> I don't want to discuss abot the politics, stability of it etc, so the topic |
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> can be closed. |
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Wow, some people see conspiracies everywhere. There's no "politics" involved. |
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The long-standing policy of the kernel team is to only include bug fixes that |
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are going into upcoming releases of the kernel and other "small" features like |
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squashfs (this one is for releng). |
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While most gentoo devs do refer to reiserfs as "ricerfs" and "hate" reiser4 even |
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more than reiser3, it's usually for good reasons. For example, genkernel doesn't |
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work on reiser4. I challenge you to tell me it's genkernel's fault and point out |
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the problem. |
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But regardless of how anyone feels about reiser4, as soon as it's included in |
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the "upstream" kernel (the kernel.org folks), it will appear in gentoo-sources |
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and on the CD media. |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator |
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