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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:56:19PM -0700, C. Brewer wrote: |
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> Forgive me if I've gone delusional.. I was just under the impression that udev |
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> was going to do everything that devfsd does now _and_ add name mapping, and |
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> apparently I was wrong. I'm just planning for the future since seeing the |
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> udev changes going into our init system.. we got no choice about the devfs |
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> and I feel it's going the same way for udev. I'm not trying to slight the |
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> obviously hard work that was put into it, but what about choice? to devfs or |
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> not to devfs? to udev or not to udev? Or is it merely choice with package |
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> selection, and not with the overall package that is Gentoo? |
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You can go without devfs easily. |
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You do, however, need to boot with gentoo=nodevfs to tell the init |
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system you don't want devfs. |
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The choice is there. |
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Jon Portnoy |
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