Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles

[Benda Xu]

Thanks Ben,

Ben Kohler <bkohler@g.o> writes:

> To stay on the original track, I was suggesting adding it to the linux
> profile component, not base.  And people who are unwilling to use udev
> would disable it globally, like people who are unwilling to use pam or
> ipv6.
>
> But I understand where you're coming from in general-- that we've
> already achieved a good minimal balance in enabling udev only where
> it's really needed, and enabling it in linux make.defaults will make
> it difficult to get back to that state.
>
> So I will just continue to ask for IUSE=+udev where I believe it's
> very important for sane functionality of a particular package.  In
> other words, I'm no longer pushing for the make.defaults change.

Glad we are back to the common ground again.  Have fun hacking.

Yours,
Benda