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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make udev optional in net-wireless/bluez?
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 12:34:31
Message-Id: 531C5FC4.3090407@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make udev optional in net-wireless/bluez? by Samuli Suominen
1 Samuli Suominen:
2 >
3 > On 09/03/14 04:55, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
4 >> On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 21:23 -0500, Joshua Kinard wrote:
5 >>> So I want to try and play around with a particular network domination tool
6 >>> on my home network, Omphalos. However, its current configure script has a
7 >>> hard dependency on bluetooth.h, part of the net-wireless/bluez package.
8 >>>
9 >>> Currently, net-wireless/bluez has a harddep on virtual/udev, which works
10 >>> great if you use either udev or eudev. I'm using busybox's mdev instead, so
11 >>> the logic of the bluez ebuild needs some changes:
12 >> [...]
13 >>> Thoughts on this?
14 >> Does mdev have any API which is equivalent to libudev's hwdb? See
15 >> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/libudev/libudev-udev-hwdb.html
16 >>
17 >> If yes, then optimal solution would be to patch bluez to allow using
18 >> mdev's hwdb support, and get the patch upstreamed :)
19 >>
20 >>
21 >
22 > but package.use.force the
23 > USE="udev" enabled,
24
25 force/mask doesn't always improve user experience and should not be used
26 deliberately, IMO