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On 10/13/2017 12:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Just to expand a bit on this - the Gentoo-added service manager kernel |
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> options are purely for convenience. If you don't use gentoo-sources |
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> you won't see them at all, because they're not part of the upstream |
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> kernel. All they do is pull in a bunch of other options. Back in the |
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> "good old days" people would look at the wiki (or pre-wiki) page for |
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> openrc, see a list of mandatory kernel options, and set those options |
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> when building their kernel. Then somebody had the clever idea that it |
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> would be easier for users to not shoot themselves in the foot if we |
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> just gave a one-click option that set all the requirements |
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> automatically. However, the kernel configuration settings doesn't |
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> really have any concept of "optional dependencies" - so we're stuck |
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> with either not pulling in ipv6, which mostly works, or pulling it in, |
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> which always works. |
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> It is completely safe to answer no to whether you use systemd and |
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> openrc, and then just manually answer yes to the things that you need. |
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> Just keep in mind that you may run into issues if you don't enable |
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> something that is truly mandatory, or you might have diminished |
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> functionality. It also means that you need to keep your ears open for |
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> when the requirements change, since there won't be a Gentoo automagic |
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> kernel config setting to change things for you. That said, running an |
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> upstream kernel isn't really that big a deal - I do that since I run |
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> btrfs and zfs and want to have a bit more control over which series |
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> I'm running to mitigate the bugs. |
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That's good to know. I've been running gentoo-sources since 2003 or so. |
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This is the only time I've noticed a problem, and thanks to the link |
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that Mike posted if all else fails I'll turn off the automagic and |
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configure things manually. |
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My networks are (were?) taken care of by networkmanager, but now that |
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systemd is gone on more machines there's really no reason to keep it around. |
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Dan |
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