Re: [gentoo-dev] News item draft for >=sys-fs/udev-209 upgrade

[Lars Wendler]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:46:23 +0100 Peter Stuge wrote:

>Lars Wendler wrote:
>> >> - try to prevent most naming pollution of pure udev with systemd
>> >> crap.
>> >
>> >childish. me don't like pink ponies. pink too much. pony okay.
>>
>> Riiight... as udev has anything else to do with systemd other than
>> being uselessly integrated into systemd whereas it can still work on
>> its own with no whatsoever relation to systemd. But yes, totally
>> childish...
>
>I wouldn't say childish but it doesn't seem too useful to me. It
>seems clear (at least to me) that even if there isn't so tight
>integration of udev with systemd today it's reasonable to expect
>that there will be tight integration in the soonish future, as
>upstream continues to move in the direction they like.
>
>There's nothing wrong per se with a future udev ebuild which
>applies a mega-patch onto systemd sources in order to get udevd
>standalone but I think that's probably not the most useful
>contribution you can make to Gentoo, Lars.
>
>Of course in the end you should work on what you like, but in your
>place I would probably focus on something else, probably eudev.
>
>
>//Peter

As long as it's feasible I will continue patching the systemd crap out
of udev. 
The worst part always was and still is the man pages as one cannot
re-use previous patches on them. Whatever systemd maniacs are doing
there, it's the most time consuming part of the patching. 
The fun part is, it's still quite easy to get udev standalone without
anything being related to systemd (with the exception of the systemd
unit files which still can be used with my ebuilds).

-- 
Lars Wendler
Gentoo package maintainer
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