On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 14:18, Mike Kirkland wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 07:01:15 -0500
> Kumba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Markus Nigbur wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> 
> What about splitting vanilla into vanilla-2.4 and vanilla-2.6? Perhaps with the 2.6 
> branch blocked to drive home the point that the 2.6 kernel isn't really ready for 
> production use yet.
> 
> There's always going to be a disparity between desktop users who want shiny new 
> stuff to play with, and more production oriented people who want to wait and see.

Thats exactly what came to my mind now. I think that would be the best
way to do
-- 
Christian Gut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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