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Steven J. Long wrote: |
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> What I'm not in favour of is making the simple cases more |
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> difficult, to deal with the complex ones. It's completely |
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> brain-dead thinking. |
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This is exactly what some people think or say when they learn that I |
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use Gentoo. |
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I appreciate Gentoo because I am able and willing to control my system. |
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Users of other distributions are either not able or not willing or |
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both, and thus they find Gentoo completely brain-dead. That's fine. |
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I don't have to care about them when deciding what I will run. |
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I hope the analogy is clear. |
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If the kernel changes it's network device naming policy, please talk |
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to the kernel developers - it seems counterproductive to expect that |
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some distribution will bend far f-ing backwards in order to provide |
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you the same experience that you were used to with the old kernel. |
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It seems equally counterproductive to expect or demand that udev will |
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change (or not change) the way you want it to, if you are not one of |
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the core developers. |
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William is packaging upstream udev for Gentoo. |
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You are shooting the messenger. |
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If you do not like what udev is doing, then step in and PARTICIPATE |
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in that project, or in one of the competing projects. (I wish there |
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wouldn't be so much fragmentation, but the NIH syndrome is mighty.) |
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The task of distributions is to deliver a composite of upstreams. |
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The task of distributions is NOT to deliver an immutable system where |
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internals are magically updated with all the latest developments and |
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fixes, except for all the latest developments that make any sort of |
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visible change because those require an administrator to work. |
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I think that if you have a requirement for an extremely stable |
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environment, to the point where network interface names matter, |
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then you need to take significant responsibility to *create* that |
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environment *yourself*. You can't really rely on distributions to |
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do that for you - that's not part of their value proposition. |
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I would suggest to leverage the fantastic Gentoo tools and portage, |
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in order to create your own distribution which suits your needs. |
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Open source is only ever successful when you own your problems. |
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//Peter |
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