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On 18/11/12 07:19, Greg KH wrote: |
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> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: |
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>> Having a builtin is a good idea, but the implementation as a mandatory |
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>> dependency on kmod is not. The plan is to reintroduce it as an optional |
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>> dependency, so that distributions (and Gentoo users) that do not want it |
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>> can avoid it. None of us want to force dependencies on others and there |
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>> is no need for this one. |
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> You do realize that you didn't really drop the dependency at all, right? |
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Exactly what I had in mind. So far I see bunch of regressions (back to |
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bundling code :() in the "eudev" repository and more it deviates from |
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the orig. upstream the less attractive it's looking... |
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What should be done, at most, is to cherry-pick and revert the things |
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that killed the sep. /usr support, put it behind an USE flag to the |
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current udev's ebuild, perhaps IUSE="+vanilla", and be done with it. |
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- Samuli |
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