On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: >> having a standardized kernel with a few flags probably isn't a bad idea. > > That doesn't scale at all. Suggest instead take a .config as input to > the emerge, maybe something like savedconfig for busybox, and add > shortcuts for common options. > > That way, the same mechanism can be used for arbitrarily complex > configurations too.
The intent would be to have all non-mutually-incompatible options enabled as modules and an accompanying initramfs. That's what every single other distro does - it works reasonably well. USE flags might be used for any odd situations that can't be covered in this way (though I can't think of any offhand - odd situations are probably handled best with a manual build). If you're just going to feed it a .config file then you might as well use genkernel - the idea is to be bulletproof. Just emerge the package and run grub-install and you have a bootable system. Rich
