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On Tuesday 07 October 2003 12:21, Chris Sykes wrote: |
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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 2.4 and 2.6, and I understand, no longer actively maintained.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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> What is it in gentoo that actually depends on devfs? |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25292 |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27527 |
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the plan of action is move to udev as soon as that becomes feasible |
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nothing really 'depends' on devfs, it just makes management of /dev/ a HELL of |
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a lot nicer ... i know i hated looking around /dev in my old slackware |
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install ... it has hundreds of useless dev files ... |
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-mike |
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