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On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:15 PM, 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 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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> 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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Who isn't in the OSS world? :) However, they seem to have a valid |
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design and a goal (similar to ours) so why not try to work things out? |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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