From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Any objections to removing linux-libre@4.1? Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2017 17:47:41 -0400 Message-ID: <87o9u3v30i.fsf@netris.org> References: <87wp8suvs4.fsf@netris.org> <20170604163130.GA14880@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38068) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHdNO-0002lc-Jr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2017 17:47:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHdNL-00027y-Ig for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2017 17:47:58 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:54786) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHdNL-00027h-EK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2017 17:47:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170604163130.GA14880@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sun, 4 Jun 2017 12:31:30 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org I forgot to mention: Leo Famulari writes: > I'd hate to "strand" existing users who might not notice that they are > not receiving updates to the 'linux-4.1' package they've specified in > their GuixSD configuration. I think they could not fail to notice, because if we removed it, any attempt to build a system with linux-libre-4.1 would fail immediately. Mark