On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am Sun, 30 Apr 2017 12:36:03 -0700 > schrieb Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.com>:
>> The warnings don't bother me that much, I just feel they are Bad >> Policy. Enabling cgroups would add unnecessary complexity to the >> kernel configuration, if only a bit. > > On the other hand, if such warning weren't there, it would make > installing full-featured systems more difficult. And any experienced > Gentoo user can decide on her/his own how to react to such warnings. > > I like to have such warnings in. It gives me hints what I like to have > and what not and gives me the opportunity to improve my knowledge by > researching on that warning. > > An improvement could maybe be made: Such warnings could tell links into > the Gentoo wiki for further information on that topic. > Yes, positive warnings would make the difference: "Your kernel lacks support for cfoo. You can use this package but feature bar will be disabled. See "https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bar_great" As opposed to: "Your kernel lacks support for cfoo. You absolutely must enable cfoo, everybody knows that, what were you thinking?! Do the right thing or else..." Regards Jorge