On 09/17/14 10:13, Samuli Suominen wrote:
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
I agree. Anyone is free to build and install anything without the
ebuild, but then they're on their own.
Also, who says we're building a linux kernel with our stage3s? I may
want on just as a chroot or container, or run it on a non-linux kernel.
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