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Bug 56068 - we should punt gaming-sources
Summary: we should punt gaming-sources
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: x86-kernel@gentoo.org (DEPRECATED)
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Blocks: 23104 50426 54637 54732
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Reported: 2004-07-04 09:39 UTC by SpanKY
Modified: 2004-07-04 20:41 UTC (History)
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Description SpanKY gentoo-dev 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well that project has gone under long ago and we are left with a kernel that is outdated, unmaintained, and well, was never really that great for gaming anyways ;)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) gentoo-dev 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) gentoo-dev 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) gentoo-dev 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) gentoo-dev 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) gentoo-dev 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.... :)