On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 14:28 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > The problem is that *all* mips-sources ebuilds do not provide alsa. > Only the mips-sources-2.6.* versions do this, and then only if > USE="ip30" (Octane users).
This makes sense, although not the USE flag. > I'm just worried about folks running 2.4 systems (only Indys at this > point) with mips-sources "providing" alsa, but not really. This could > get even more tricky because I happen to know somebody is working on an > alsa driver for Indy, and it will be for 2.6 only. We're trying really > hard to get everything to where we can just get rid of 2.4, but until > that time, setting the virtual to mips-sources is technically broken. Of course, 2.4 kernels are technically broken because they dont support alsa, and this is fixed in other profiles with the inclusion of a 2.4 (or 2.6) sub profile. However.. if nothing actually works with alsa, then I dont see the problem in that case of making the profile default mips-sources. if it happens to install 2.4 sources, then so be it. it might be a technically incorrect provide.. but nothing else can fill it any better. At least at this moment in time. If it were me, thats what I would do. But of course, this change doesn't really make any difference to mips one way or the other. -- Role: Gentoo Linux Kernel Lead Gentoo Linux: http://www.gentoo.org Public Key: gpg --recv-keys 9C745515 Key fingerprint: A0AF F3C8 D699 A05A EC5C 24F7 95AA 241D 9C74 5515 Web: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9C745515 -- [email protected] mailing list
