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On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:33:10 +0200 |
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Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote: |
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> Michał Górny schrieb: |
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> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:24:27 -0500 |
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> > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > |
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> >> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:18:00PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> >>> Hello, all. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Since nowadays udev is bundled within systemd, we start having two |
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> >>> libudev providers: >=sys-apps/systemd-185 and sys-fs/udev. Making |
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> >>> the long story short, I would like to introduce a virtual for |
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> >>> libudev which would pull in either of those two. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> There are three USE flags used in conditionals when depending on |
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> >>> udev: |
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> >>> - gudev - for glib wrapper on udev, |
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> >>> - hwdb - to pull in hwids, |
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> >>> - static-libs. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> The former two were previously provided by 'extras' USE flag, |
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> >>> and the third was unconditional. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> I'm attaching an example virtual/libudev which does the job. |
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> >>> Sadly, because of the 'extras' compatibility it's a big ugly |
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> >>> conditional. |
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> >> |
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> >> I'm going to ask here, because of the discussion on IRC, that you |
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> >> not commit this yet. There are issues still we need to work out wrt |
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> >> packaging systemd and udev. |
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> > |
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> > So, can I commit the virtual and finally start fixing people's |
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> > systems or are we going to discuss this to the day when other |
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> > options are no longer a possibility and virtual will be necessary? |
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> > |
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> > You seem still not to understand that upstream *does not care*. |
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> > And either way, merging udev and systemd will result that two, four |
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> > or six months from now users will need to manually re-adjust their |
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> > @world to have the packages split again. |
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> > |
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> |
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> I wrote it the last time you asked and i write it this time again: NO! |
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> Beside that, the last time i wrote you a mail about this topic, where |
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> you did not respond at all. So please read it again and answer it. |
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> Such change should be properly checked, before we even think about |
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> the idea of such a switch. |
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I'm pretty sure I replied to every mail I got from you. |
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And please remind me: what is your relevance to systemd or udev? What |
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do you know about history of those packages? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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