commit:     170a9bba6640fc6eb6753862245e28b17d217f6e
Author:     James Le Cuirot <chewi <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Tue Sep 10 10:36:56 2024 +0000
Commit:     James Le Cuirot <chewi <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Tue Sep 10 11:30:18 2024 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=170a9bba

sys-firmware/seabios: Soften the warning about building from source

This was written over 10 years ago, and we do build our own -bin package
with the regular Gentoo toolchain. Upstream does not give any such
warning, at least in https://www.seabios.org/Build_overview.

Signed-off-by: James Le Cuirot <chewi <AT> gentoo.org>

 sys-firmware/seabios/seabios-1.16.3.ebuild | 12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sys-firmware/seabios/seabios-1.16.3.ebuild 
b/sys-firmware/seabios/seabios-1.16.3.ebuild
index eaaa72c37fa1..7fd2fd755950 100644
--- a/sys-firmware/seabios/seabios-1.16.3.ebuild
+++ b/sys-firmware/seabios/seabios-1.16.3.ebuild
@@ -52,14 +52,10 @@ choose_target_chost() {
 }
 
 pkg_pretend() {
-       ewarn "You have decided to compile your own SeaBIOS. This is not"
-       ewarn "supported by upstream unless you use their recommended"
-       ewarn "toolchain (which you are not)."
-       elog
-       ewarn "If you are intending to use this build with QEMU, realize"
-       ewarn "you will not receive any support if you have compiled your"
-       ewarn "own SeaBIOS. Virtual machines subtly fail based on changes"
-       ewarn "in SeaBIOS."
+       ewarn "You have decided to compile your own SeaBIOS. This may cause 
subtle"
+       ewarn "failures at runtime. Please try sys-firmware/seabios-bin before"
+       ewarn "requesting support from Gentoo or upstream."
+
        if [[ -z "$(choose_target_chost)" ]]; then
                elog
                eerror "Before you can compile ${PN}, you need to install a x86 
cross-compiler"

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