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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:31:07
Message-Id: CACsJy8AH7dkTf=Nib7XTxvGLvN6V1oDrj6XbnjHc_LsQNFe9UQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012) by Greg KH
1 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote:
2 > I understand the bizarre need of some people to want to build the udev
3 > binary without the build-time dependencies that systemd requires, but
4 > surely that is a set of simple Makefile patches, right? And is
5 > something that small really worth ripping tons of code out of a working
6 > udev, causing major regressions on people's boxes (and yes, it is a
7 > regression to slow my boot time down and cause hundreds of more
8 > processes to be spawned before booting is finished.)
9 >
10 > As I posted elsewhere, working on a project based on "hate" only lasts
11 > so long. I should know, that's the reason I started udev in the first
12 > place over 9 years ago[1].
13 >
14 > [1] Long story, best told over beers, take me up on it the next time you
15 > see me, I'll buy.
16
17 Not everybody can have a chance to have a beer with you. Would you
18 mind spending maybe an hour to write it down and share it with
19 everybody?
20 --
21 Duy