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Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> skribis: |
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> On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 12:40:59 -0500 |
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> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > Honestly, there is no shortage of people offering their opinions. |
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> > What there is a shortage of is people actually doing work to make |
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> > (e)udev do anything differently. In the end people can complain as |
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> > much as they want, but unless they fork over effort or dollars or |
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> > something they won't get terribly far. |
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> > |
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> Work? What work? |
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> I have never used udev/eudev/mdev or anything similar and, if I am allowed |
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> to nave a choice, I never will. |
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> Manually creating a /dev tree that perfectly reflects ones own system |
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> is rather trivial. That's how Linux used to be and that's how Linux, |
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> for the most part, still is. There is, or at least should be, no need |
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> for udev or any substitute for udev. |
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> IOW, udev should be developed as a nice, helpful option for those who |
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> want such nice, helpful options. But it always should be just that: optional. |
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> Once it stops being a choice then we begin to deviate greatly from |
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> the once sacrosanct principles of free software. |
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I second everything here. There is very little achieved by udev that |
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is of any appreciable benefit to a Gentoo user, who could easily |
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create nodes and set their permissions without having to do anything |
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complicated. |
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(Disclaimer: Currently I am using eudev, without pleasure.) |
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