Daniel Drake wrote: >Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote: > > >>That said, we're not RedHat. We ship as MANY features as we can and let >>the user decide. I agree that it is valuable to get reiser4 testing done >>up front. Eventually - some people will use it. Last I checked "I think >>$FOO is stupid" wasn't a valid closure code in bugzilla ;-) >> >> > >Then you have different views from the kernel project :) > >We and try and make our kernel (gentoo-sources) _more_ stable than the >official Linux releases. We mainly stick to bug fixes decreed worthy by the >upstream developers, etc. We never include patches when we know of problems >that they will introduce. > >Daniel > > Sorry I was unclear - what I meant was that we wouldn't remove all support for an fs from portage. As an example if/when reiserfs4 merges into mainline we wouldn't be ripping out all the userland support and vanilla-kernel support. You are completely correct regarding gentoo-sources, though I don't believe this was the point of the original discussion.
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