Hi, Wol <antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes:
> On 15/02/2023 15:51, Daniel Frey wrote: >> On 2/15/23 06:10, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >>> On 2023-02-15 08:11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>>> >>>> If, as you say, it will eventually replace eselect, there is no more >>>> bloat, just different bloat. It's still just a bunch of symlinks, but >>>> managed differently. >>>> >>> >>> Should be less, since you already have portage installed but not >>> necessarily eselect-whatever. >>> >> I didn't even know eselect-whatever was even an option until this >> post... It's not something I've ever used. >> It does (at least to me) make sense for the package manager to enforce these >> selections rather than some optional tool though. >> > what are they going to do about "eselect kernel set ..." then? > > It's bad enough depclean deleting the active kernel if you don't watch out, > without something deciding to install a non-existent kernel and deleting the > live one :-) This is part of the motivation behind the dist-kernel project. See: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Distribution_Kernel As an anecdote, I haven't thought about what my kernel and modules are doing in a very long time, and I use multiple out of tree modules. Happy hacking and have a great day. -- Arsen Arsenović
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