Re: [gentoo-user] udev update

[Francisco Ares]

2014-11-10 13:42 GMT-02:00 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > So, if I understood something, I will probably have to check this
> > configuration entry every time I build a new kernel from now on, because
> > "menuconfig" will probably set this on because of its dependencies, is
> this
> > correct?
> >
>
> That depends on how you configure your kernels.  If you start from
> your last kernel config then the setting won't change.  If you create
> a new config every time, then it depends on how you're creating it.
>
> Dependencies never cause something to be turned on or off.  You have
> that a bit backwards conceptually.  KDE depends on glibc, which means
> you can't install KDE if you don't have glibc present. That doesn't
> mean that it is impossible to build a system which contains glibc and
> not KDE.
>
> Now, if you were talking about reverse-deps that would be another
> matter.  The kernel config tools won't let you disable a setting which
> is a dependency of another setting, though I believe they generally
> don't automatically turn things on either.  Dependency-management in
> the kernel is fairly primitive in general - it does a somewhat-decent
> job of not letting you shoot yourself in the foot, as long as you
> don't go manually editing .config files, but it can be a bit of a pain
> turning on things that are missing dependencies.  It definitely isn't
> targeted at the "end user."
>
> --
> Rich
>
>

I guess that last statement includes "genkernel" users.

Thanks,
Francisco