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Hi, |
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Wol <antlists@××××××××××××.uk> writes: |
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> On 15/02/2023 15:51, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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>> On 2/15/23 06:10, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>>> On 2023-02-15 08:11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>>> |
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>>>> If, as you say, it will eventually replace eselect, there is no more |
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>>>> bloat, just different bloat. It's still just a bunch of symlinks, but |
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>>>> managed differently. |
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>>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> Should be less, since you already have portage installed but not |
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>>> necessarily eselect-whatever. |
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>> I didn't even know eselect-whatever was even an option until this |
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>> post... It's not something I've ever used. |
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>> It does (at least to me) make sense for the package manager to enforce these |
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>> selections rather than some optional tool though. |
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> what are they going to do about "eselect kernel set ..." then? |
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> It's bad enough depclean deleting the active kernel if you don't watch out, |
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> without something deciding to install a non-existent kernel and deleting the |
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> live one :-) |
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This is part of the motivation behind the dist-kernel project. See: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Distribution_Kernel |
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As an anecdote, I haven't thought about what my kernel and modules are |
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doing in a very long time, and I use multiple out of tree modules. |
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Happy hacking and have a great day. |
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Arsen Arsenović |
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