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On Sunday, 31 December 2017 18:46:06 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> On 2017-12-31 01:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > If you don't mind my asking, what factors make you prefer vanilla to |
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> > gentoo sources? (I assume that's what you use.) |
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> One reason is security fixes. Sometimes longterm vanilla already |
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> includes the fixes from mainline, and when it does not, I know that the |
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> diff will nearly always apply because they are just two branches of the |
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> same git tree. |
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> The other reason is the extra kconfig options in the gentoo sources, |
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> which are on by default and I don't want any of them. I don't remember |
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> anymore but I _think_ at some point it wouldn't let me turn them off |
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> without extreme violence. |
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Interesting. Thanks. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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