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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> On Jan 27, David Brown [dmlb2000 AT gmail.com] wrote:
>>> Thanks, but why is this in the linux spell instead of an 
>>> smgl/smgl-mkinitrd
>>> or something?
>> Well, eventually I was thinking on enabling building of the initrd by
>> default in the linux spell,
> 
> Why would we make this the default?  Is the kernel planning to start
> requiring an initrd?
> 
>> which means that it would have to be in the linux spell (since the linux
>> spell isn't really supposed to depend or anything depend on the linux
>> spell).  At least this is how its been in the past.
> 
> Having the linux spell not depend on anything make some kind of sense
> but it obviously does depend on some things now whether it names them
> or not (gcc, for one).  Regardless, I don't think the point there is to
> make any potential dependencies part of the linux spell itself.

This is incorrect. All spells should have the proper dependency. The
caveat with the linux spell is nothing should depend *on* it, as people
may want to use their own kernels outside of this package.

- -sandalle

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