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On 13 November 2012 10:40, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> 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 applaud this initiative. I would recommend you contact, and try to work |
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together with, the existing fork of udev, which is available in layman's |
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udev overlay. There is a corresponding thread on our forums. |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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Gentoo developer |
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Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin |