On Sunday, 31 December 2017 18:46:06 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-12-31 01:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > If you don't mind my asking, what factors make you prefer vanilla to > > gentoo sources? (I assume that's what you use.) > > One reason is security fixes. Sometimes longterm vanilla already > includes the fixes from mainline, and when it does not, I know that the > diff will nearly always apply because they are just two branches of the > same git tree. > > The other reason is the extra kconfig options in the gentoo sources, > which are on by default and I don't want any of them. I don't remember > anymore but I _think_ at some point it wouldn't let me turn them off > without extreme violence.
Interesting. Thanks. -- Regards, Peter.
