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On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:59:22AM +0000, Duncan wrote |
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> It may very well be that a fork is thus required. I guess we wait and |
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> see. But I don't see the kde folks being willingly subsumed into a |
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> gnomeos black hole, and time and again, floss history has demonstrated |
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> that when there's an immediate need, forks do occur. Both gnome and kde |
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> have their forks in recent history, xorg is a fork, there's the glibc and |
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> gcc history, etc. If integration gets too close, a fork /will/ happen. |
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There already is a lightweight udev implementation ("mdev") included |
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in busybox. Given busybox's philisophy and goals, we can be certain |
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that mdev will remain lightweight. I'm not a programmer or developer, |
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but I was annoyed enough to start what became |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev BTW, there is a sort of "udev rules" |
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equivalant. See http://git.busybox.net/busybox/plain/docs/mdev.txt |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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