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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Forking udev is probably not an option. The udev lead developer is a |
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> Redhat employee, and his direction seems to be to drag everybody in |
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> Redhat's direction. Our community doesn't have Redhat's billions. |
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We should note that RedHat is already spending their billions to make |
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dracut smarter, and if initramfs is good enough for RHEL then it |
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should be good enough for us if somebody just has to have /usr on a |
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separate device and needs some of the fancier udev rules to work on |
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boot. For those who don't need dracut there was already a stated |
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desire to provide a simplified initramfs. And, for less complex |
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setups, you don't need it at all. |
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My concern with something like dropping udev is that it would make us |
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different from every other desktop distro out there. I'm not aware of |
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any distro packaging Gnome/KDE without udev. Not having Redhat's |
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billions to me is a good reason to try to do things the same way that |
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Redhat does them - so that we're not re-inventing the wheel. |
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Gentoo is still a fairly meta distro and if users want to remove udev |
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they probably can do it without a great deal of hassle if they don't |
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want hot more hotplugish experience and don't use the big desktop |
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environments. It just doesn't make sense to make that a default. In |
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the same way I don't mind a list of CFLAGS that spans 3 lines but I'd |
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never advocate putting that into the default make.conf. |
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Rich |