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On Tuesday 07 October 2003 11:21 am, Chris Sykes wrote: |
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> Hello all. |
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> Is there currently any plan to remove the dependancy that gentoo |
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> currently has on devfs. I ask because devfs has known faults in both |
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> 2.4 and 2.6, and I understand, no longer actively maintained. |
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Oddly enough we were just talking about this on irc. devfs is being marked |
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obsolete in 2.6, and will likely be removed in 2.7. There is a bug about |
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this: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25292 |
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I don't know exactly what azarah has planned, but just to let you know there |
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are plans. |
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> What is it in gentoo that actually depends on devfs? |
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I believe most of the init scripts at one time relied on devfs, I think |
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they've been slowly weening them off devfs. |
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--Iggy |
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