[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

[Rafael Fernández López]

Hi,

	An idea came to my mind. I'm a proud Gentoo User, and I see day by day how 
portage gets clever and how my Gentoo distro does work better everyday.

	I'm gonna make a very little proposal (maybe it's now developed, but I've no 
idea how to make it work).

	Since Linux Kernel has become so big (almost 300MB) I'd like to suggest 
something. I don't want to download newer versions of Linux kernel, because 
my computer does work perfectly with the current one (maybe I'll install a 
very later one, but I'm not going to change my 2.6.11 with a 2.6.14). I don't 
want portage to download them, nor install them, because always that portage 
downloads and installs them, I've to do an "emerge unmerge", it's a lot of 
space disk, and I need it.

	If I set gentoo-sources in package.mask, the apps, libraries that depends on 
it won't install, and an "emerge -vuD world" will fail, and won't update 
other packages. Well, if it's a critical dependance I'll have to install new 
kernel version, but If it is not, why?.

Thanks,
Rafael Fernández López.
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