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On 11/13/2012 04:31 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:40 AM, 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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>> |
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>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/505 |
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>> |
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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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>> |
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> Have you tried contacting other distros? They may face the same |
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> problems with us and they might be interested |
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> in helping us out. |
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> |
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We already thought of that. Does anyone know someone at debian? |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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