Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:46:36
Message-Id: 87in51mugr.fsf@proton.d.airelinux.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles by Rich Freeman
1 Hi Rich,
2
3 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes:
4
5 > I don't believe anybody suggested making Gentoo harder to customize.
6 > This is just about setting reasonable defaults.
7 >
8 > You can run a server without bash, openrc, sysvinit, or glibc. Should
9 > these also be removed from the base profile?
10
11 A reasonable default implies a stable default, the one that does not
12 change for a weak reason.
13
14 The reasons are weak for switching udev on, and weak for switching
15 glibc, openrc, bash etc. off.
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17 If it ain't broke don't fix it. Changes without consensus cause more
18 trouble than good.
19
20 Yours,
21 Benda