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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:12:18
Message-Id: 56B87805.1080102@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider by Brian Dolbec
1 On 2/8/16 4:25 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote:
2 > On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:08:22 +0100
3 > Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Ohey,
6 >>
7 >> I've opened a bug at:
8 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573922
9 >>
10 >> The idea here is to change the order of the providers of virtual/udev.
11 >> For existing installs this has zero impact.
12 >> For stage3 this would mean that eudev is pulled in instead of udev.
13 >>
14 >> The rationale behind this is:
15 >>
16 >> * eudev is an in-house fork, and there's more than a dozen distros
17 >> already using it by default that are not us. Which is a little bit
18 >> weird ...
19 >>
20 >> * Both udev and eudev have pretty much feature parity, so there won't
21 >> be any user-visible changes
22 >>
23 >> * udev upstream strongly discourages standalone udev (without systemd)
24 >> since at least 2012
25 >>
26 >> (see for example:
27 >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-June/005516.html
28 >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/618
29 >> )
30 >>
31 >> So it'd be (1) following upstreams recommendations and (2) dogfooding
32 >> our own tools. I don't see any downsides to this :)
33 >>
34 >
35 > +1
36 >
37 > I switched to eudev a few years ago and glad I did.
38 >
39 > The non-systemd profiles should have eudev as default.
40 >
41
42 just pile the pressure on :)
43
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45 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
46 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>