Re: [proaudio] emerge rt-sources && ln -s linux -> rt-sources

[Frieder Bürzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colin Shapiro wrote:
> On 5/26/06, *Mark Knecht* <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:markknecht@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Further, I think that creating this link is not the Gentoo way. This
>     link is neither created, changed or destroyed when emerging
>     gentoo-sources or any of the other kernels. I think it should really
>     not be done here. 
>
>
> Well I do agree that it is a behavior that shouldn't exist, since the 
> "symlink" USE flag is supposed to give the user control over this.  
> However, I am not so sure that this is a problem with the rt-sources 
> ebuild, since I can say from experience that gentoo-sources also does 
> this.  It didn't always occur (it used to be the case that if you 
> emerged a kernel with USE="-symlink", no symlink was created even if 
> you didn't have one), but there was one point when I remember it just 
> started happening.
>
> So my point is that the problem may lie elsewhere, but of course since 
> I don't know what causes it, I can't say for sure.
>
> - Colin
Mark,

rt-sources don't force the symlink. It's just like Colin described.
With USE=symlink you create a new symlink to that source and with 
USE=-symlink it shouldn't create one (locally it works this way)

   Frieder