Bug 56068 – we should punt gaming-sources

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description SpanKY 2004-07-04 09:39:52 UTC]

gaming-sources was introduced to help push the gaming livecd project iirc

well that project has gone under long ago and we are left with a kernel that is outdated, unmaintained, and well, was never really that great for gaming anyways ;)

unless i missed something i think the package should get punted so we can focus on other kernel trees that need maintainership (like gentoo)

[Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-07-04 09:54:08 UTC]

I agree. As I recently said on IRC, I'm willing to pay anyone who can get gaming-sources to compile ;)
Anyway, its basically just the ck patches plus some other stuff on a very old kernel, it would be best to persuade any users to switch to ck-sources.

[Comment 2 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2004-07-04 09:59:49 UTC]

I agree too.  If no big objections happen, I'll delete it next Wed.  Or sooner
if people want me to :)

[Comment 3 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) 2004-07-04 10:05:52 UTC]

i think you can remove them very easily. i never understood why we really needed these even in the days where there was no 2.6... (although spanky is right as to why they came about)

i'd vote for sooner... rather than later.

Jay

[Comment 4 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2004-07-04 11:01:32 UTC]

Ok, it's now gone.

[Comment 5 Adam R 2004-07-04 20:32:06 UTC]

I do not know, I had no problems with gaming-sources, with the exception of hsflinmodem.

[Comment 6 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2004-07-04 20:41:38 UTC]

for what its worth gaming sources originally used a broken version
of -ck that didnt prioritize correctly, this made it a good gaming kernel
(proven with many gaming livecd benchmarks), but a terrible 
desktop kernel..

Then ppl decided newer was better.... :)