Re: [gentoo-amd64] Please get me straight about sysvinit vs. systemd, udev vs eudev vs mdev, virtuals and other things...

[Barry Schwartz]

Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> skribis:
> Of course every single user can keep a neat and clean /dev directory.
> The point is, most users don't want to do that. Using udev solves that
> issue *for every possible user using every possible hardware
> combination*.

Which is why it is a nice _option_, unnecessary for Gentoo in general,
and foolish to make a _prerequisite_ to run a whole lot of
software. That’s exactly my point, and I think it was Frank’s as well.

The trouble comes not from udev itself but from ‘vertical integration’
involving udev, which is directly contrary to principles of good,
modular design.