Hi Ludo, > I was hoping we could come up with a way to generate a kernel config, > either based on ‘allmodconfig’ or something like what NixOS does [0], > but I’ve become pretty convinced that this would be difficult at best.
What difficulties did you encounter with using allmodconfig as a basis? > NixOS has a nicer way to express this, but long ago people thought it might > be fragile. I agree that how nixos does it seems a little fragile. From what I've heard the kernel settings and their defaults change frequently with each release. This is why I think relying on the kernel devs to provide reasonable defaults makes more sense IMO. I'd like to make it easy to build custom kernels, I remember using an auto detect config feature a while back when using arch. But before working on that I need to actually transition to guixsd...
