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