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On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 02:32:57AM -0400, Olivier Cr?te wrote |
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>> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 01:05 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>> > I *DON'T WANT* "a serious framework", I want a lightweight device |
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>> > manager... period... end of story. Stick with the unix principle of one |
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>> > app doing one thing well. mdev is enough for the vast majority of people. |
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>> For the people who don't want to easily use USB sticks or digital |
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>> cameras or gsm dongles or really any modern hardware, I'm sure mdev is |
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>> fine. A static /dev is even fine for you probably. |
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> Huh!?!?!? USB sticks work just fine, thank you, with mdev. I also |
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> regularly backup my mdev-based machine via rsync to an external drive |
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> via USB. And yes my camera does show up as a USB mass storage device. |
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> Ditto for my HTC Desire. |
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"Those who don't understand UNI^H^H^Hsoftware are condemned to |
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reinvent it, poorly." |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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