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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag for "udev" ?
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:53:55
Message-Id: 4CBAE4F8.3000901@gentoo.org
1 Too many packages describing essentially the same (what HAL used to do
2 before):
3
4 - Device (auto)discovery (HAL did this...)
5 - Storage support (udisks or gvfs -> udev[extras]) (HAL did this...)
6 - Power support (upower -> udev[extras]) (HAL did this...)
7 - Installs rules (Same as installing HAL fdi file, more or less...)
8
9 So the description could be:
10
11 "Enable udev support (rules install, device discovery, power and storage
12 device support, etc)"
13
14 17 packages:
15
16 app-emulation/libvirt:udev - Use sys-fs/udev to determine available devices
17 app-misc/emelfm2:udev - Enable udev support using sys-fs/udisks
18 dev-libs/cyberjack:udev - Enable installation of udev rules
19 gnome-base/gvfs:udev - Enable udev base replacement code for cdda feature
20 media-libs/libgpod:udev - Enable udev support
21 media-sound/pulseaudio:udev - Use sys-fs/udev for autodiscovery of
22 sound devices; this replaces the deprecated sys-apps/hal autodiscovery
23 code.
24 media-sound/rhythmbox:udev - Enable hardware detection via sys-fs/udev
25 replacing the deprecated sys-apps/hal code.
26 media-video/gxine:udev - Use sys-fs/udev for autodiscovery of devices;
27 this replaces the deprecated sys-apps/hal autodiscovery code.
28 media-video/vlc:udev - Enables Linux udev services discovery.
29 net-misc/connman:udev - Enable udev support.
30 net-misc/ofono:udev - Use sys-fs/udev for modem detection.
31 sys-cluster/drbd:udev - Enable udev integration
32 sys-fs/ntfs3g:udev - Install udev rule to make udisks use ntfs-3g
33 instead of the kernel NTFS driver.
34 x11-base/xorg-server:udev - Enable devices discovery via udev
35 x11-libs/libfm:udev - Use sys-fs/udev to determine available devices
36 x11-misc/pcmanfm:udev - Use sys-fs/udev to determine available devices
37 xfce-base/thunar:udev - Enable udev support (required by
38 xfce-extra/thunar-volman)