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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:08:48
Message-Id: 4E953CD4.3020900@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev by Walter Dnes
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4 On 10/12/11 05:40, Walter Dnes wrote:
5 > Hi all
6 >
7 > The other option is to drop udev entirely. As an example, I
8 > suggest looking at Alpine Linux http://alpinelinux.org/ It's a
9 > lightweight server-oriented distro. It uses busybox's mdev instead
10 > of udev, and some other mdev substitutes in place of standard
11 > packages. It uses openrc. Furthermore, "previous versions of
12 > Alpine were based on Gentoo" as per
13 > http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alpine_package so
14 > there should be no problem with us borrowing back from Alpine.
15 >
16 This is a joke right? All the desktop "infrastructure" depends on
17 that. Are you suggesting to make Gentoo an embedded/server only distro?
18
19 - --
20 Regards,
21 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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