On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 02:10:54PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 12:58 PM Consus <con...@ftml.net> wrote: > > > > even distribution kernel is not an > > official thing, but a desperate attempt of someone to fix things. > > > > Huh? gentoo-sources is in at least as good a shape as I've ever seen > it. I'd argue it is in better shape than at a lot of times in the > past.
Still you have to manually configure things. And I know that Gentoo is about choice, but configuring kernel is hard. > There are other kernels in the repo, as there have been for as long as > I can remember. They vary in purpose and level of QA. And of course > you can just download your own sources considering the official > handbook instructions has you build your own kernel anyway... I > personally just run upstream longterm so that I have more control over > things, because I run ZFS. However I wouldn't say that this is any > problem with the Gentoo kernels - I just have unusual needs and a > package for the source tarball doesn't really add much value anyway. > A package that actually builds/installs a working kernel seems like a > lot more value-add aside from the QA. That's why I love gentoo-kernel-bin. It provides a decent kernel without any "oh crap oh crap oh crap what should I do with all these new options". P.S. genkernel seems to be actively maintained again, neat.
