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On Nov 14, 2012 4:08 PM, "Ben de Groot" <yngwin@g.o> 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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Great! So that means, we already have something to show to other distros, |
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then? |
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And we already have ryao, blueness, and chainsaw all expressing their |
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desire of forking udev (apologies if I left anyone). |
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Hmm... need a roll-call, I guess... |
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Rgds, |
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