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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 21:45:11
Message-Id: 2bc2944e-9972-1a70-b84a-e985608c25e8@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd by Neil Bothwick
1 On 12/5/19 12:50 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > No, but since it is provided by the ebuild, the ebuild should check
3 > that the target system is capable of supporting it. The qemu ebuild
4 > already spits out warnings about missing kernel options, not all of them
5 > essential, so why not this one too?
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7 I think a warning for missing NBD support is absolutely the correct way
8 to go.
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10 I think blocking / failing the ebuild is the wrong thing to do.
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12 IMHO warning ≠ failure
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25 Grant. . . .
26 unix || die