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From: Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev upgrade 208 > 212-r1, openrc USE flag changed to disabled?
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 20:39:14
Message-Id: CAOazyz23n=+uJJjE4H478DehhEarUVQF9VRr79e58d-7+iF=WA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] udev upgrade 208 > 212-r1, openrc USE flag changed to disabled? by Tanstaafl
1 On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > On 6/14/2014 2:15 PM, Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>
5 >> wrote:
6 >>>
7 >>> On 6/14/2014 1:02 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
8 >>>>
9 >>>> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>
10 >>>> wrote:
11 >>>>>
12 >>>>>
13 >>>>> *Why* was it removed/no longer needed? And why was it needed
14 >>>>> previously?
15 >>>>
16 >>>>
17 >>>> Read the ChangeLog for sys-fs/udev, specifically the entry on 03 Apr
18 >>>> 2014.
19 >>>
20 >>>
21 >>> Thanks - a half hour of googling didn't find this.
22 >
23 >
24 >> 03 Apr 2014; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
25 >> udev-212-r1.ebuild, udev-9999.ebuild:
26 >> Punt USE="openrc" and always pull in sys-fs/udev-init-scripts to match
27 >> behavior of sys-apps/systemd's ebuild.
28 >
29 >
30 > Which means... what exactly?
31 >
32 > The only way I can make sense of your reply is...
33 >
34 > It means the only purpose of the openrc USE flag prio to this change was to
35 > pull in udev-init-scripts?
36 >
37 > See what I mean? How am I supposed to know that?
38 >
39
40 It means that openrc users should strongly consider migrate to eudev.
41 I use eudev since its beta and never had any issue, nor systemd
42 leaking into my system. And in addition add the following at
43 make.conf, as it seems that we are enforced to have files we never
44 use.
45
46 INSTALL_MASK="/lib/systemd /lib32/systemd /lib64/systemd
47 /usr/lib/systemd /usr/lib32/systemd /usr/lib64/systemd /etc/systemd"

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