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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About udev-145: new features / extras and kernel requirements
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:11:18
Message-Id: robbat2-20090830T191047-307482340Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About udev-145: new features / extras and kernel requirements by Bruno
1 On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 05:05:05PM +0200, Bruno wrote:
2 > Is this bound to consolekit or does it rather fall under 'acl' use-flag?
3 > I guess this includes a kernel requirement (ACL support for tmpfs)
4 Yes, this would imply CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL to actually be used.
5
6 > > * usb-db: Provide udev-rules with device names of pci and usb devices
7 > > * hid2hci: Special utility to fix resume of some hid devices
8 > > * keymap: Auto-configure model specific keys found on many laptops
9 > > ("brightness up", "next song", "www browser", or "suspend")
10 > > * modem-modeswitch: Switch modems that provide virtual cd-drive with
11 > > drivers to modem mode
12 > > * gudev: glib/gobject support for libudev
13 > Is gudev just a binding or is it more? If it's just a binding it may
14 > be nice to have it tied to a use-flag.
15 USE=glib has a couple of packages already, and this looks like another
16 good one for it.
17
18 > > This makes udev depend on these libs:
19 > > libacl, libglib2, libusb, usbutils, pciutils, gperf
20 dev-util/gperf is not a lib. It's one of those packages that should
21 almost NEVER be seen in RDEPEND even, as it generates C/C++ during build
22 time only.
23
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25 Robin Hugh Johnson
26 Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
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