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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels? | ||
| Date: | Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:49:19 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20070402093715.41a09090@krikkit.digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels? by Walter Dnes |
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| 1 | On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 01:02:32 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > I don't mind the 30 or 40 megs for the source tarball+patches in my |
| 4 | > distfiles directory. But the quarter gig for each minor "r" bump, most |
| 5 | > of which I never build, is a bit much. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Why install it if you're not going to build it? |
| 8 | |
| 9 | r bumps are necessarily minor, as they often contain security fixes. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | |
| 12 | -- |
| 13 | Neil Bothwick |
| 14 | |
| 15 | (A)bort (R)etry (T)ake an axe to it? |
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