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on 01/29/2014 11:41 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: |
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> On 29/01/2014 17:35, James wrote: |
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>> Thanasis <thanasis <at> asyr.hopto.org> writes: |
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>>> No, because as I said in a previous post, the matter is that when a |
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>>> newer version 3.10.X is in the tree, and you do an update of the world |
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>>> set, the newer kernel source of the 3.10.X series won't appear as an update. |
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>>> You'll have to emerge it again "manually" and likewise "manually" |
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>>> unmerge the older one. |
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>> Manual control/determination of kernels may appear overtly |
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>> clumsy, but it is far better to expend a bit of extra time, manually, |
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>> than in panic mode; which is why I think you see a lack |
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>> of feature rich granularity in gentoo related to kernels, imho. |
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> Plus, the target market for Gentoo is folks who know how kernels work, |
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> know what they want and know how to enable it without hand-holding. |
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> If the target market doesn't know how to do this, they almost always |
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> have the skills *and desire* to learn it, and usually do so very rapidly. |
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> Add it all up with what you said and you get a complete explanation for |
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> why gentoo-sources works like it does. |
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Yea, but I think, this is the case for *all* packages, not only kernel |
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sources, at least until now, isn't it? |