-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:20:09 -0400 "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zeroch...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Some patches are reasonably easy to combine, such as genpatches and > aufs. Some patches are difficult to combine, such as hardened and *. > When you combine hardened patches and aufs (for example) you need > extra patches. I would be THRILLED to see the number of sources cut > down, but hardened-sources must be it's own thing (that said, I'll > personally maintain the aufs patches for hardened if they wanted to > add a USE=aufs flag). Yes, gave it as an quick example but I indeed remember from going through the sources ebuilds that hardened ebuilds do quite some things. I think the downside from extending genpatches is that hardened-sources can no longer rely on it, but we'll have to see that as we go forward. I don't think that apart from hardened the optional patches on their own are hard to combine; they each have their own separate goal, I don't see them conflict on anything. If it happens once in a while, we can still maintain them to work together. Also note that I do not plan to introduce any USE flags, since that would duplicate the options to be listed in the kernel menuconfig. > If users want a vanilla kernel, they want vanilla-sources. Nothing > about that should change. I don't feel that it would be honest to > add a vanilla use flag to gentoo-sources as in no reality are those > vanilla. Apart from the changes discussed on the gentoo-kernel ML, nothing else there will change. You can read the thread as well as the summary; if you disagree, you're welcome to join the discussion there. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.kernel/697 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.kernel/697/focus=730 But yes, apart from that, vanilla-sources will give you vanilla kernel. - -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJR0b3UAAoJEJWyH81tNOV9UAMIAMSQy/EPWr9l4JCVMaB3x7bb ezv8vrmSDxFUB30mX9cPPAvfpaeWSFvRCpvPfEsKkHAcTJomSfP7PxgEVKLA4jT2 TwoovBQsADEowAIgUHFr9lqIrE9HQ0nik89bNz1HxkbUl4uQijnnfcLTu/6WpdGJ aMAxImTXQc1Py7w+RNcy9fR0pXh6zXx23CWNVMvn2hb+wGkQDbzy4gOeHFok2i9F 3B3ZjLNUdY2agEBpo0AqF0hwSPHUDbrteFVwJKjauYTyNA8Ofc5OhRnpGHEbq5/4 mB4J2R/MnsukXNeNJUgLzjqSykKChdNbImLl6OXXXl1PyinjuAdBeC7SoUV3DDg= =5OIS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
