Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 00:44:15
Message-Id: 4FA86CF0.5080307@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code by "Olivier CrĂȘte"
1 On 05/08/12 07:16, Olivier CrĂȘte wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 18:23 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 >> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 05:59:45PM -0700, Greg KH wrote
4 >>> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 02:52:33PM -0700, Luca Barbato wrote:
5 >>>> On 04/05/12 14:35, Walter Dnes wrote:
6 >>>>> What could work is a shim or compatability layer that gets
7 >>>>> called, and pre-processes requests and forwards them to mdev.
8 >>>> That's my idea =)
9 >>> and then, look, you have reimplemented udev.
10 >>>
11 >>> {sigh}
12 >> Actually, more like what udev *USED TO BE*, namely a simple devicei
13 >> manager.
14 > Maybe Greg understands how udev was
15 ... and of course the horrors that were called "devfs" and such - we
16 remember :)
17 > and how it should be better than you
18 > do,
19 err, that's bad. Maybe I know my needs better than other people? Maybe
20 my needs don't completely overlap with those of other people. Maybe
21 their vision of a tightly coupled everything doesn't even cover my
22 usecases nicely ...
23 > since he wrote it.
24 >
25 >
26 Classical argumentum ad verecundiam, you win a cookie.