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On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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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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>> 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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> 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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You will always have that choice, since the software is free. |
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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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If you want to create a /dev tree for a computer that never gets new |
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hardware connected via USB, bluetooth, or another bus, yeah, it's |
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pretty trivial. |
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Too bad that kind of computer is going the way of the dodo. |
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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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We agree on that one. Of course, if a distribution wants to support as |
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many users as they could, they probably will choose the nice, helpful |
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options. |
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The alternatives will be always available, of course. It's just that |
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perhaps no distribution will want to do the "rather trivial" work of |
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generating a static /dev tree for *your* computer. |
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But is rather trivial, isn't it? So it doesn't matter. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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