[2015-07-19 16:37:42 +0200] Jan Alexander Steffens:
I recently noticed we have community/linux-grsec. Do we have a stance on additional kernels? I vaguely remember some stigma against it but not the details. Maybe I'm completely wrong.
From what I remember, essentially, quite a few people were against officially supporting another kernel, particularly since the feature gain was not clear and it seemed like the grsec world would at some
For reference, it was discussed there: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2014-April/026170.html point also need to interfere with userland packages, but Daniel Micay kept replying he would take care of everything himself and that there would be no interference.
If it is agreeable, I would like to bring the ZEN kernel[1] into either [extra] or [community].
You make it sound like that package would differ very little from our current linux package and require little additional maintenance; it really seems fine to me to bring it to [community]. Cheers. -- Gaetan