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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:36:33
Message-Id: 20120718153502.GA13957@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge by William Hubbs
1 On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:12:09PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote
2 > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:19:48PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote:
3 > >
4 > > Looking at @system and what it typically pulls into @world, the only
5 > > thing that might cause a problem is udev, although virtual/dev-manager
6 > > is in @system, rather than udev. If that happens, we have a few ways of
7 > > dealing with that:
8 > >
9 > > 1. Patch udev.
10 >
11 > I think I can come up with a patch locally that will read rules from
12 > /lib/udev/rules.d if that's what we want to do for now.
13 >
14 > > 2. Fork udev.
15 >
16 > I don't think this is necessary, and it would create more work for us
17 > than is needed.
18
19 3. More support for mdev; e.g. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev and
20 (still in beta) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB The
21 next challenge is "custom mdev rules", which should be do-able.
22
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24 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>