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On 13/11/12 04:40, Richard Yao wrote: |
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> Dear Everyone, |
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> It is no secret that many of us are unhappy with the direction that udev |
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> has taken under the leadership of the systemd developers. That includes |
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> Linus Torvalds, who is 'leery of the fact that the udev maintenance |
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> seems to have gone into some "crazy mode" where they have made changes |
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> that were known to be problematic, and are pure and utter stupidity.' |
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> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/505 |
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> After speaking with several other Gentoo developers that share Linus' |
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> concerns, I have decided to form a team to fork udev. Our plan is to |
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> eliminate the separate /usr requirement from our fork, among other |
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> things. We will announce the project later this week. |
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> I understand that the council is scheduled to vote on a topic related to |
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> udev stabilization. Would it be possible to delay the vote for another |
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> month so that we have time to get organized? |
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> Yours truly, |
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> Richard Yao |
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I honestly think you will run out of manpower rather sooner than later |
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but good luck anyway. |
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The stabilization of new udev shouldn't be delayed anymore. |
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News item can be assigned to inform users sep. /usr is not possible with |
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official udev without initramfs. |
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- Samuli |
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