on 01/29/2014 11:41 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: > On 29/01/2014 17:35, James wrote: >> Thanasis <thanasis <at> asyr.hopto.org> writes: >> >> >>> No, because as I said in a previous post, the matter is that when a >>> newer version 3.10.X is in the tree, and you do an update of the world >>> set, the newer kernel source of the 3.10.X series won't appear as an update. >>> You'll have to emerge it again "manually" and likewise "manually" >>> unmerge the older one. >> >> >> Manual control/determination of kernels may appear overtly >> clumsy, but it is far better to expend a bit of extra time, manually, >> than in panic mode; which is why I think you see a lack >> of feature rich granularity in gentoo related to kernels, imho. > > > Plus, the target market for Gentoo is folks who know how kernels work, > know what they want and know how to enable it without hand-holding. > > If the target market doesn't know how to do this, they almost always > have the skills *and desire* to learn it, and usually do so very rapidly. > > Add it all up with what you said and you get a complete explanation for > why gentoo-sources works like it does. >
Yea, but I think, this is the case for *all* packages, not only kernel sources, at least until now, isn't it?
