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On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:08:22 +0100 |
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Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ohey, |
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> I've opened a bug at: |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573922 |
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> The idea here is to change the order of the providers of virtual/udev. |
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> For existing installs this has zero impact. |
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> For stage3 this would mean that eudev is pulled in instead of udev. |
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> The rationale behind this is: |
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> * eudev is an in-house fork, and there's more than a dozen distros |
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> already using it by default that are not us. Which is a little bit |
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> weird ... |
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> * Both udev and eudev have pretty much feature parity, so there won't |
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> be any user-visible changes |
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> * udev upstream strongly discourages standalone udev (without systemd) |
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> since at least 2012 |
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> (see for example: |
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> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-June/005516.html |
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> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/618 |
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> ) |
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> So it'd be (1) following upstreams recommendations and (2) dogfooding |
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> our own tools. I don't see any downsides to this :) |
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+1 |
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I switched to eudev a few years ago and glad I did. |
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The non-systemd profiles should have eudev as default. |
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Brian Dolbec <dolsen> |
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