On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 9:35 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.ever...@iee.org> wrote: > I think that is the potential for a stage4-style install. I think > previous list discussions have maintained that the flexibility of gentoo > is maintained by having a very basic install image, and a stage3 to > bootstrap into, and have the user compile their own kernel. > > Otherwise, go install debian/ubuntu/choose-your-own-ready-boxed-linux > ... gentoo isn't that kinda distro. Imho.
By that argument, when you run emerge chromium shouldn't it just dump the chromium sources in /usr/src, so that you can build and install your own chromium? The whole point of a source-based package manager is that it actually BUILDs the packages. Why do we treat the kernel differently from every single other package? I get that users often want to build their own, and that is fine. We SHOULD have a package that dumps sources in /usr/src (though to be honest I prefer to just fetch mine using git). However, why shouldn't emerge virtual/kernel not just give you a /boot/vmlinux-x.y.z the same way that emerge vim gives you a /usr/bin/vim? -- Rich
