-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Berntsen schrieb: > On 27/07/13 10:56, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: >> How about dropping vanilla-sources and adding a "vanilla" USE flag to >> gentoo-sources? > Then we might as well just have a Linux package with a bunch of USE > flags -- gentoo, hardened, libre, tuxonice, ck, etc.
I don't think this can be made work, the other kernel packages' releases may not happen simultaneously with kernel releases. Or they may even skip certain releases. Rich Freeman schrieb: > Unless it were stable-masked it would create the exact same problem. vanilla flags are not package.use.stable.mask'ed for toolchain packages either, yet they go stable with them. And there, USE=vanilla might cause serious breakage even. > There was another suggestion to try to manage the patch sets via the > kernel config system, but that isn't without its own challenges. vanilla = don't apply any patches, I don't think that could be improved by any modification to the kernel config system. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SeaMonkey - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlH0D3MACgkQ+gvH2voEPRBmFACbBixGjRbW0z4yOhMvLRXaHx1z PjAAnin5cF6lD7X8n0KGpBbyMFT3kAAz =kPOS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
