maillog: 19/06/2006-11:13:33(+0000): Alec Warner types > Portage currently exports $KV as the current kernel version. We detect > this by attempting to mess around with the things in /usr/src/linux > (.config, make files, etc...) > > This is duplicating the superb efforts of the kernel team and of > linux-info eclass. As such I would like to deprecate $KV in favor of > using linux-info eclass. I don't see the need for portage to export $KV > into the environment for all packages. > > There are a few packages left that use this. There will be a tracker > bug shortly. Mostly this mail is just a heads up ;)
But any kind of checks against something in $KERNEL_DIR are just wrong, wrong, wrong. The only exception being when the ebuild is building something *against* those sources (kernel modules, and that's it). It's annoying to have virtual/linux-sources pulled as a dep of gnupg, iptables or any other package that can do fine without them. -- / Georgi Georgiev / Don't quit now, we might just as well lock / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ the door and throw away the key. \ / http://www.gg3.net/ / / -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
