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This outcome was just super. Systemd was bumped to -188 today. Udev is |
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still at -187. Instead of actually listening to upstream[1], which |
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would be easy with a virtual, we're now stuck with one part of the duo |
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being at one version and the other part of the duo another. And when I |
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login to X with this combo, my display is /upside-down/. And I don't |
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know if it's because our hackery on the tarball has left out some |
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vital part, because disabling stuff in the one ebuild (gudev in |
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systemd) and enabling it in the other is going to cause some |
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non-trivial problem, or if it's simply a bug upstream. But that's |
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okay, because gentooers are powerusers and we're supposed to have the |
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time to debug this stuff, right? |
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This is disgusting. Really. Virtuals are simple. This stuff is |
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freaking *hard*. Whoever it was that forced this on systemd in gentoo |
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should have a big *object* stuck in *place* and be forced to *action* |
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as penance for the time I'll have to waste fixing this. |
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[1] "And what we will certainly not do is compromise the uniform integration |
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into systemd for some cosmetic improvements for non-systemd systems. |
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(Yes, udev on non-systemd systems is in our eyes a dead end, in case you |
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haven't noticed it yet. I am looking forward to the day when we can drop |
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that support entirely.)" |
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http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-August/006066.html |
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Meaning: For now, you're allowed to have udev without systemd but |
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mixing-and-matching udev versions and systemd versions will be |
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unsupported and patching udev will probably break systemd at some |
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point. |
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TL;DR: This is a sucky situation you've put all users of udev in. |
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