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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/libudev
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:15:59
Message-Id: 20120710181502.GA22644@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/libudev by "Michał Górny"
1 On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 07:57:50PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:54:31 -0400
3 > Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:18:00 +0200
6 > > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
7 > >
8 > > > The former two were previously provided by 'extras' USE flag,
9 > > > and the third was unconditional.
10 > >
11 > > since udev-171 seems to be going stable, why not simply drop the
12 > > 'extras' compatibility ?
13 > > then you could just use 'gudev?' usedeps it seems
14 >
15 > I heard that people are still bound to old udev versions because of
16 > kernel requirements introduced by newer ones.
17
18 The eventual plan is to kill off the extras use flag in favor of the
19 others. It is only there to allow packages that depended on udev[extras]
20 to be moved to depend on the correct use flag, so I think we should be
21 able to kill it at some point. I just haven't looked into doing that.
22
23 William