On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 19.04.2012 01:21, schrieb Seblu: >>> As far as I'm concerned the replacement can stay in community, but if >>> anyone feel otherwise I'd be ok with moving and adopting it. >> >> If you move linux-tools source package into core/extra it make sense >> to merge it with linux package. > > This would force moving these utilities to core instead of extra, and > would unnecessarily bind the kernel and some userspace tools together > (for example, every rebuild of the kernel would force a rebuild of these > tools, regardless if they changed or not). These PKGBUILDs should > definitely stay separated. > Currently i removed the last kernel version dot in linux-tools to avoid user confusion between stable kernel number and linux-tools version. I manually check if stable release embed fix for cpupower and perf to avoid user to update when not needed. As a side note, Kernel dev have choosen to ship with kernel source tree those tools. They had the choice of moving them into linux-util or others source tree. My suggestion was to avoid work to be done twice for us. It's done on other distro like debian. -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net
