On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Felix Kuperjans <fe...@desaster-games.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 18:39, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Jarry <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Thanks, this works (never heard of this file before). But there is >>> one small problem: no wildcards are allowed, so whenever new sorces >>> come I'll have to edit package.provided again, and again... BTW why >>> should kmod depend on kernel-sources? Or even better, why should be >>> kmod installed, if I have static (non-modular) kernel? >> Because your use case is not standard. The normal situation for users >> with kmod installed (and you have already kmod installed, since in >> your --pretend run appears as to be reinstalled) is for them to use >> kernel modules. The developers cannot handle every possible >> combination of configurations, so defaults are set for the least weird >> cases, or the common case even. >> >> Your setup is not the norm; therefore, it depends on you to keep it as >> you like it. >> >> Regards. > The case is actually quite common; Linux *sources* are only needed for
Even if it is "quite common" (which I doubt) is not the norm. The Gentoo Handbook[1] and Gentoo Linux Kernel Guide[2] only discusses one method to get kernel which you can boot: installing one of the several sources packages available under sys-kernel/*-sources, and configuring it manually or via genkernel. > building kernels on the local machine (and - if used - additional > modules like nvidia-drivers). > Anyone who does not build the kernel on the local machine, e.g. taking > stock kernels from Debian/Fedora/..., kernel provided by > netboot/openvz/Xen domUs or build them remotely will almost never need > linux-sources installed. Yeah, and you can install the kernel that your cousin Billy compiled for you. Neither of those methods are the norm, as covered by the Gentoo documentation, and therefore if you use those methods, you are on your own. > BTW this will also add full kernel sources to all stage3 archives, > increasing their size quite significantly. Which has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Regards. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1#book_part1_chap7 [2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
