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From: Richard Yao <ryao@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:42:39
Message-Id: 56C3DE05.1040004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider by Patrick Lauer
1 On 02/08/2016 04:08 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote:
2 > Ohey,
3 >
4 > I've opened a bug at:
5 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573922
6 >
7 > The idea here is to change the order of the providers of virtual/udev.
8 > For existing installs this has zero impact.
9 > For stage3 this would mean that eudev is pulled in instead of udev.
10 >
11 > The rationale behind this is:
12 >
13 > * eudev is an in-house fork, and there's more than a dozen distros
14 > already using it by default that are not us. Which is a little bit weird ...
15 >
16 > * Both udev and eudev have pretty much feature parity, so there won't be
17 > any user-visible changes
18 >
19 > * udev upstream strongly discourages standalone udev (without systemd)
20 > since at least 2012
21 >
22 > (see for example:
23 > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-June/005516.html
24 > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/618
25 > )
26 >
27 > So it'd be (1) following upstreams recommendations and (2) dogfooding
28 > our own tools. I don't see any downsides to this :)
29 >
30
31 +1

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