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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 07:29:21
Message-Id: 20180725102859.c29f79edf40c506d2cdf2a33@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles by Rich Freeman
1 On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:14:55 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:06 PM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
3 > >
4 > > On 07/24/2018 11:39 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
5 > > >
6 > > > You can run any system without udev, but you need to be very careful
7 > > > about what Linux features you utilize and how you have the system
8 > > > configured.
9 > > >
10 > > > Most Linux servers out in the wild are running udev; your
11 > > > configuration is an exception to the common case.
12 > > >
13 > >
14 > > Gentoo users are Gentoo users because Gentoo is easy to customize.
15 >
16 > I don't believe anybody suggested making Gentoo harder to customize.
17 > This is just about setting reasonable defaults.
18
19 Adding udev to the base profile will make customization much harder
20 for people unwilling to use udev. This is the problem.
21
22 > You can run a server without bash, openrc, sysvinit, or glibc. Should
23 > these also be removed from the base profile?
24
25 Best regards,
26 Andrew Savchenko

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles Ben Kohler <bkohler@g.o>