I fully agree here. Even when portage merges the new kernel sources, it needs user action to actually change to the new kernel. So why not move them now?
I brought this up with iggy a day or so ago in the IRC chanel, and the current rational is even though they should belong in vanilla-sources, as they're no longer in development, and even though users should know that vanilla-sources is just vanilla -- no gentoo patches, etc.., that by being in vanilla-sources, a 2.6.0 kernel will still trigger a wave of bug reports while the x86-kernel people aren't fully prepared yet.
2.6.0 works fine for me on x86, but then again I use purely console. From what I've heard, there are still problems when using X from time to time and such, so 2.6.0 isn't quite there yet. In fact, Andrew Morton, 2.6 maintainer, is still keeping his -mm tree alive, and most patches/fixes will go in there for testing before they wind up in the next 2.6.x release. (2.6.0-mm1 has a ton of patches).
It'll get moved eventually, probably when x86-kernel has a few more people to sort out bugs.
--Kumba
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