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On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@...> wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 02:32:57AM -0400, Olivier Cr?te wrote
>> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 01:05 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>> > I *DON'T WANT* "a serious framework", I want a lightweight device
>> > manager... period... end of story. Stick with the unix principle of one
>> > app doing one thing well. mdev is enough for the vast majority of people.
>>
>> For the people who don't want to easily use USB sticks or digital
>> cameras or gsm dongles or really any modern hardware, I'm sure mdev is
>> fine. A static /dev is even fine for you probably.
>
> Huh!?!?!? USB sticks work just fine, thank you, with mdev. I also
> regularly backup my mdev-based machine via rsync to an external drive
> via USB. And yes my camera does show up as a USB mass storage device.
> Ditto for my HTC Desire.
>
"Those who don't understand UNI^H^H^Hsoftware are condemned to
reinvent it, poorly."
--
~Nirbheek Chauhan
Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
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