Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

[Rich Freeman]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:00:23 +0530
> Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote:
>> Then please continue with udev in package.mask and kindly stop trying
>> to impose your workflow on the rest of the world.
>
> Isn't the point here that the desktop / GNOME OS guys are trying to
> impose their deep integration, tight coupling workflow upon the rest of
> the world?

So, Gentoo is about choice and empowering the user, so I think that if
somebody wants to offer patches that allow mdev to work better without
adversely affecting udev use then I'd encourage devs to accept those
patches.

However, if Gentoo aims to make Gnome/KDE difficult to deploy with the
default configuration we'll be shooting ourselves in the feet.  I
think a lot more people run KDE/Gnome on Gentoo than run Gentoo with
/usr not on root but who are unwilling to run an initramfs.

Rich