Ok, that may sound stupid, but i'd like to be able to install the ibm-acpi package despite i've built the module from the kernel sources tree (now that it's included in 2.6.10). I have two reasons for that: - i want the doc (example scripts), and the kernel sources won't give it. - i still use the module from the package on some kernels, thus still have it in my world, and i don't want an update of ibm-acpi to randomly interrupt a world update depending of what my /usr/src/linux symlink currently is. I will attach a patch that uses the @CONFIG_FLAG:module_name syntax of linux-mod.eclass to make the module compilation optional.
Created attachment 48883 [details, diff] ibm-acpi-0.10.patch
Since the ibm-acpi ebuilds contain no user-space utilities I see no reason to allow it to be installed when CONFIG_IBM_ACPI is enabled in the kernel. The documentation is included in the kernel as Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt. The example acpi scripts wont help much as the in-kernel version might differ from the version available in portage. The problem with using it on some but not all kernels is easily solved: 'emerge ibm-acpi && emerge -C ibm-acpi'. That will install the kernel module and, since /lib/modules/ is config protected, de-install everything but the kernel module again.
> I see no reason to allow it to be installed when CONFIG_IBM_ACPI is enabled Any reason to forbid it? I don't see what this change would break. > The example acpi scripts wont help much as the in-kernel version might differ > from the version available in portage. The worst that can happen is that the version in portage provides handlers for events that don't yet exist with the in-kernel version. But the other handlers are still perfectly useful. > emerge ibm-acpi && emerge -C ibm-acpi But then i loose the docs and don't know about updates. I would compile it out of portage if i didn't want the package to be in installed, or i would use --oneshot if i didn't want it registered in my world.
It would break bug reports: "I have problem foo with the ibm_acpi module" "Which version of app-laptop/ibm-acpi do you have installed?"
Ok, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the explanation.
