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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>, udev-bugs@g.o, systemd <systemd@g.o>, base-system <base-system@g.o>, agk@××××××.com, Federico Tomassetti <f.tomassetti@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping static libs support from cryptsetup and lvm2
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:03:26
Message-Id: 51FACD0F.1020904@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping static libs support from cryptsetup and lvm2 by Pacho Ramos
1 On 01/08/13 19:46, Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > El jue, 01-08-2013 a las 18:11 +0200, Luca Barbato escribió:
3 >> On 01/08/13 17:36, Michał Górny wrote:
4 >>> So esystemd and ekmod now?
5 >>
6 >> You know my stance on systemd, for me it is a jumble of bad and
7 >> interesting ideas not so soundly implemented, I do not have much time or
8 >> will to play with that thing.
9 >>
10 >> kmod on the other hand had a pressing issue and getting it fixed-ish
11 >> took about an evening while having Federico see around it.
12 >>
13 >> lu
14 >>
15 >
16 > But, what are the advantages of putting a lot of effort in keeping
17 > static libs for udev?
18
19 A lot of effort means not using random-clashing-names, not keeping
20 functions around just because.
21
22 > Looks like nothing really need them, and even
23 > Debian (that doesn't use systemd by default) drops them
24
25 Robbat said he wants to keep the stuff working, thus I lent him an hand
26 while introducing a friend to a small codebase with a good number of
27 practices I consider faulty but sort of easy to fix.
28
29 lu

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