>>>>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> s/If/If and only if/ and I'll be fine with it. :)
> Are you proposing that the ebuild inspect the user's hardware and/or > kernel config before printing a warning? Of course not. > That sounds like a terrible idea to me. Who is going to maintain the > problematic hardware list? > I do think it would be nice to give people a way to opt-out of seeing > this warning message every time they install a kernel though. IMHO this type of message just adds noise to emerge output, which elsewhere we have fought to reduce (using readme.gentoo-r1.eclass, for example). So yes, you need to install a kernel, a bootloader, and maybe some specific system tools and firmware. All of this is documented in the handbook [1], and for the others we don't display messages all the time if we divine that something could be possibly missing. Anyway, this is just about verboseness of output. I think I've made my point, so I'll shut up now. :) Ulrich [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Kernel#Optional:_Installing_firmware
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