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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:09:49
Message-Id: 56C47125.1080400@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider by "Michał Górny"
1 Michał Górny schrieb:
2 >> In a follow-up, upstream wrote about how you should only run udev together
3 >> with systemd, and if you don't want to do that (spelling as in original):
4 >>
5 >> "we will not support the udev-on-netlink case anymore. I see three options:
6 >> a) fork things, b) live with systemd, c) if hate systemd that much, but
7 >> love udev so much, then implement an alternative userspace for kdbus to
8 >> do initialiuzation/policy/activation."
9 >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019664.html
10 >>
11 >> So it seems a bit more than only initialization is needed.
12 > You're missing the third option which is a sane option, and jump
13 > straight to pitchforks.
14
15 Are you serious? The quoted line directly above your comment shows
16 clearly that I have read and understood the third option.
17
18 > If Lennart's single statement from 2014 is a reason to use eudev
19 > instead of systemd-udevd, my statement from today is a more important
20 > reason not to use eudev.
21
22 With the exception that Lennart Poettering is the lead developer of
23 systemd/udev, while such a thing cannot be said about you and eudev.
24
25
26 Best regards,
27 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>