On 20:19 Thu 04 Jul , Mike Pagano wrote: > I have 'relaxed' a tad about what I think should be in g-s, but maybe it has > gone a bit farther than I wanted it too. > > I would like to see a "-experimental" use flag and base,extras,geek > (whatever) > so that g-s goes back to what it's original goal was with nothing > non-upstream > unless the user does a configuration change themselves. > > This will actually help us solve both issues. > > 1) it will allow us to pull g-s back to it's original goal as a minimal > kernel sources with upstream only patches.
Original? Not true. gentoo-sources has, for ages, carried feature patches that were considered useful to Gentoo as a whole or to releng in particular. It's carried whole filesystems like XFS, it's carried EVMS, it's carried pretty much the whole ck- patchset (Con Kolivas), grsec, FreeS/WAN and OpenS/WAN, the bootsplash stuff, etc. > 2) we can carry some patches from upstreams trees that possibly aren't yet in > -next, or not yet accepted to mainline but do provide some benefit to a > smaller > group of our users. (Thinking about our thinkpad patches) -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com> Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/>
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