Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> writes: > The link is created only if you have the "symlink" USE flag enabled. > > Also, "Gentoo requires that the [...] symbolic link points to the > sources of the kernel you are running" is not entirely correct. It is > required only when you want to build something against that > kernel.
> . . . . Obviously, you need to create the symlink if you want to build > the newly installed kernel, even though the system is still running an > older one. Why is that obvious? That's what seemed confusing to me. Nothing about creating it with USE=symlin, eselect, or by hand is a problem. Or hard to follow, and I've always just done it by hand.
