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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: waltdnes@××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:28:50
Message-Id: 20120718202729.3753b0e7@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge by Walter Dnes
1 On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:35:02 -0400
2 "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
3
4 > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:12:09PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote
5 > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:19:48PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote:
6 > > >
7 > > > Looking at @system and what it typically pulls into @world, the
8 > > > only thing that might cause a problem is udev, although
9 > > > virtual/dev-manager is in @system, rather than udev. If that
10 > > > happens, we have a few ways of dealing with that:
11 > > >
12 > > > 1. Patch udev.
13 > >
14 > > I think I can come up with a patch locally that will read rules from
15 > > /lib/udev/rules.d if that's what we want to do for now.
16 > >
17 > > > 2. Fork udev.
18 > >
19 > > I don't think this is necessary, and it would create more work for
20 > > us than is needed.
21 >
22 > 3. More support for mdev; e.g. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev
23 > and (still in beta) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB
24 > The next challenge is "custom mdev rules", which should be do-able.
25
26 I don't think we should give more support to building a system from
27 a statically linked rescue suite tool.
28
29 --
30 Best regards,
31 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>