On 17/09/14 16:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/09/2014 14:49, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: >> On 2014-09-17 14:20, viv...@gmail.com wrote: >>> Il 17/09/2014 14:09, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto ha scritto: >>>> On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Luca Barbato wrote: >>>> >>>>> The bc utility is part of the posix tools and it might be used to build >>>>> linux among the other stuff. >>>> Luca, >>>> >>>> bc is not in the system set and is a dependency of the kernel or any >>>> other package that needs it, so why do we need to include a package >>>> that takes ~20 seconds to build? >>> Most people don't use the ebuild for the kernel >> That's a rather outrageous and difficult to substantiate claim. Given >> what I've seen in the forums and on IRC, it would appear the reverse >> is true; most people use the ebuild for the kernel. >> >> I wouldn't consider people who deviate from the supported methods as >> our concern. If you're smart enough to do that and want to make your >> own path, you're smart enough to emerge bc. >> > > Agreed. I've been on -user for 10+ years and only a very few fetch their > kernels directly from upstream. The vast majority of users who have > described how they do it simply emerge one of the source packages just > like the handbook says to do. > > There's an even split between genkernel users and those who make > menuconfig (100% unscientific survey taken from my brain and nowhere else) > > >
I've never used gentoo-sources in my life, and always fetched sources by hand from kernel.org, but, at the same time, I find it's 100% my own responsibility to cover any fallout from that, including manually emerging required dependencies. - Samuli
