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From: Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:46:27
Message-Id: 1857021.5vMv7goLBP@eve
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev by "Michał Górny"
1 On Saturday, October 15, 2011 09:29:54 AM Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:06:03 -0400
3 >
4 > "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
5 > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:14:31AM -0400, Olivier Cr?te wrote
6 > >
7 > > > We're imposing our deep integration because it's the only way to
8 > > > make a compelling platform that "just works", forcing users to tell
9 > > > the computer something the computer already knows is just plain
10 > > > lazy and stupid.
11 > > >
12 > > Eventually, that hits Mac or Windows-like levels of dictating 1 or 2
13 > >
14 > > sets of choices and nothing else. If I wanted Mac or Windows, I'd be
15 > > running Mac or Windows. If the developers don't deliberately make my
16 > > system break if /usr and /var aren't physically on / (and no
17 > > initramfs), I'm willing to do a bit of extra work to configure things
18 > > my way. Speaking of tight integration, what happens if Redhat's
19 > > employees make udev depend on systemd?
20 >
21 > And what happens, if GNU folks make GNU userland depend on Hurd?
22
23 They'll finally get to version 1.x and Hurd can be used instead of the Linux
24 kernel if someone wants to? :)
25
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27 Joost