Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

[Mark David Dumlao]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Friday 30 Aug 2013 15:44:35 Tanstaafl wrote:
>> On 2013-08-30 10:34 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>> > On 30/08/2013 16:29, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> >> Why would there be a problem if someone decided to create a 3rd party
>> >> overlay *not* part of the official gentoo portage tree that contained
>> >> *only* the zfs stuff, and when this overlay was installed combined with
>> >> a zfs keyword for the kernel, portage would then pull in the required
>> >> files, and automagically build a kernel with an up to date version of
>> >> zfs properly and fully integrated?
>> >>
>> >> Would this not work, *and* have no problems with licensing?
>> >
>> > there is no problem with licensing in that case.
>> > The ebuild could even go in the portage tree, as Gentoo is not
>> > redistributing sources when it publishes an ebuild.
>>
>> Thanks Alan! Just the answer I wanted.
>>
>> Ok, so... how hard would this be then? What would the chances be that
>> this could actually happen? I'll happily go open a bug for it if you
>> think the work would be minimal...
>>
>> It seems to me that I can't be the only one who would like to see this
>> happen?
>
> Nope! I will vote for you.  ;-)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick

Sounds like an awful lot of trouble for a "problem" that's already solved by
installing sys-kernel/module-rebuild and running "module-rebuild rebuild"
after every kernel update, which is how nvidia, broadcom, and other
kernel modules are dealt painlessly with anyways...

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