On Friday 30 Aug 2013 15:44:35 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-30 10:34 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.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
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