Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Global Systemd USE Flag
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:50:09
Message-Id: 5023DBF6.2090603@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Global Systemd USE Flag by "Michał Górny"
1 On 08/09/2012 12:01 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:20:52 +0200
3 > Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On 08/09/2012 10:57 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
6 >>> No. I meant to have 'GNU' tools with 'GNU' stripped. Isn't that what
7 >>> the whole discussion is about? Changing names of tools just for
8 >>> someone's liking?
9 >>
10 >> No, we are discussing about an upstream merging two unrelated projects
11 >> assuring users that nothing would change for them.
12 >>
13 >> In a week they claimed that it was unsupported, then backpedaled, then
14 >> they changed its paths.
15 >>
16 >> Forking udev hadn't been considered mostly just on that premise.
17 >
18 > So someone should just *finally* fork it, rather than talking about it
19 > all the time.
20
21 I had that[1] since ages, mostly because I was curious about how complex
22 udev is internally.
23
24 If enough people want to play this game welcome. I expect the same
25 people stomping on mdev complaining about the next little experiment.
26
27 https://github.com/lu-zero/udev
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29 lu