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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:06:25
Message-Id: bc9b2314-f571-23e6-0a23-1a0e0e763a9f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles by Mike Gilbert
1 On 07/24/2018 11:39 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 >
3 > You can run any system without udev, but you need to be very careful
4 > about what Linux features you utilize and how you have the system
5 > configured.
6 >
7 > Most Linux servers out in the wild are running udev; your
8 > configuration is an exception to the common case.
9 >
10
11 udev itself works fine with the flag off.
12
13 Please be wary of the Firefox marketing model. Gentoo users are Gentoo
14 users because Gentoo is easy to customize. If you sacrifice that to make
15 Gentoo a poor imitation of Fedora in an effort to cater to new users,
16
17 a) New users will choose Fedora anyway, because it's better at being
18 Fedora.
19
20 b) Some annoyed Gentoo users will also become Fedora users.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>