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On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Fernando Rodriguez |
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<frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Monday 20 October 2014 10:59:52 AM Michael Mattes wrote: |
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>> And that is because of the additional features? :-D |
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> I've had issues with the additional features too. Some of the USB serial |
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> devices don't get detected. But this is fixed by disabling the Gentoo specific |
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> options. I may be wrong but I think they're just configuration patches, not the |
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> actual kernel sources. I do use the vanilla kernel because at one point I |
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> needed features from a version that wasn't yet on portage. |
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How long ago was this? It looks like gentoo-sources just tracks the |
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stable kernel, and so does vanilla-sources. If you want mainline you |
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need git-sources, assuming you aren't just pulling them from git |
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yourself (an option you of-course have with vanilla too). |
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The config items in the gentoo-sources are really just master switches |
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to turn on everything needed by openrc/systemd/etc - they're |
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conveniences just like meta-packages in portage. |
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Now, gentoo-sources DOES include additional patches, and some of them |
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are features. It is of course entirely possible that they could cause |
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problems, but I imagine that they're selected fairly carefully. |
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The general philosophy mixed with some very dated info can be found at: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches/ |
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Rich |
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