On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:54:47 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:29:55PM -0400, Peter wrote: [snip] >> This kernel source will not cause Armageddon to arrive, cause smoke to >> issue from your power supply, nor interfere with other ebuilds. > > That's funny. Did you just claim that a sys-kernel/*-sources ebuild with > the patch-sets listed below would have no possibility of interfering with > other ebuilds? If so, you've just proven my point that many users wont be > able to judge how ebuilds from overlays may affect the stable tree. >
I did. Sources don't affect anything. The ck-sources are in the tree, and there is dire warning associated with them. Only the -mm sources have any sort of warning. If a user CHOOSES to use a hacked up kernel, then they obviously choose to. Just like, if a user chooses to try out reiserfs-4, they get what they pay for. Sources don't affect anything. > "Features > -ck(s) Con Kolivas Patchset, (server version available as option) -ide > libATA/ide updates, Alsa updates and fixes, Dothan Speedstep, Pentium M > undervolt, IBM ACPI fan control, Suspend2, vesafb-tng, reiser4, unionfs > squashfs, realtime-lsm, fbsplash, configurable mouse polling support, > custom dsdt, Layer7, various fixes and updates." [1] > >> Am I being to simplistic or naive? > > Both, it seems. > > Regards, > Brix > > [1]: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103354#c51 And I think these are worthwhile features. Some, actually are part of the gentoo-base and gentoo-extra patches (see the excludes list). It also includes spocks vesa-tng and fbsplash. Look, you can't micro-control all aspects of a user's computing experience. If someone downloads tmpwatch and mistakenly puts / in the list of directories to prune, what will you do? Put tmpwatch into package.mask because it MIGHT be misued? Or, will you package.mask vixie.cron because someone may not be capable of writing a bash script? Honestly, I do not see the difference, AND because the kernel is experimental (or, at least I call it experimental), and widely followed, I think Sunrise is ideal for it. JM2C. -- Peter -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
