Hi,
An idea came to my mind. I'm a proud Gentoo User, and I see day by day
how
portage gets clever and how my Gentoo distro does work better everyday.
I'm gonna make a very little proposal (maybe it's now developed, but
I've no
idea how to make it work).
Since Linux Kernel has become so big (almost 300MB) I'd like to suggest
something. I don't want to download newer versions of Linux kernel, because
my computer does work perfectly with the current one (maybe I'll install a
very later one, but I'm not going to change my 2.6.11 with a 2.6.14). I don't
want portage to download them, nor install them, because always that portage
downloads and installs them, I've to do an "emerge unmerge", it's a lot of
space disk, and I need it.
If I set gentoo-sources in package.mask, the apps, libraries that
depends on
it won't install, and an "emerge -vuD world" will fail, and won't update
other packages. Well, if it's a critical dependance I'll have to install new
kernel version, but If it is not, why?.
Thanks,
Rafael Fernández López.
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Torvalds
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