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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:03:18
Message-Id: 4FFD7949.4000204@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev by Rich Freeman
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4 On 11/07/12 06:40 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
5 > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
6 > wrote:
7 >> Being able to choose not to run systemd at all? If there's no
8 >> need to build systemd, than what it requires is irrelevant.
9 >
10 > I think this discussion is getting sidetracked.
11 >
12 > This didn't start out as a discussion about whether everybody
13 > should have to have systemd on their systems - the answer to that
14 > is no.
15 >
16 > The question is whether we should have a virtual for udev. Right
17 > now we're not sure how that is going to be packaged as far as
18 > systemd is concerned, so it is premature to make that decision.
19 > However, if we do decide to fork udev then that means we'd almost
20 > certainly need to have a virtual. At that point we'd have two
21 > different udev implementations in the tree - the fork and the one
22 > that comes bundled with systemd.
23 >
24 > Where things get dicey is if the two udev implementations start to
25 > diverge and packages need to behave differently depending on which
26 > one is installed - that would become a bit of a mess. Hopefully it
27 > won't come to that.
28 >
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31 ..although it possibly could come to that, if the fork maintains
32 installation in /{bin,sbin,lib} while systemd-udev follows the
33 upstream move to /usr/{bin,sbin,lib}
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>