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On Nov 15, 2012 2:16 AM, "William Hubbs" <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 05:07:26PM +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: |
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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 |
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udev |
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> > > has taken under the leadership of the systemd developers. That |
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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 |
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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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> I already tried to open a dialog with these guys; they seem pretty |
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> hostile; another "our way or the highway" approach seemed to be going on |
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> there [1]. |
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> William |
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> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/437570 |
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The way I see it, hostilities erupted when Suominen dismissed with great |
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prejudice (and a not insignificant amount of jeer) the idea of |
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udev-forking. |
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That immediately put the passionate people behind the forked-udev to be in |
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the defensive. |
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And you were not really acting as a mediator there William :-) |
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Rgds, |
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