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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:41:23
Message-Id: 5207DA41.7050804@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev by Neil Bothwick
1 On 11/08/13 21:13, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:52:26 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
3 >
4 >>> but the issue here was eudev *not* being updated when the virtual
5 >>> was, and both cause and result were quite clear.
6 >>
7 >> Right, but I was talking about not updating *anything* related to any
8 >> mission critical apps, and that would include the virtual/udev as well.
9 >>
10 >> That said - shouldn't this be taken care of by the the virtual/udev
11 >> package itself? Shoudln't it keep track of what versions of udev *and*
12 >> eudev it supports, and warn you (via a [B]blocker)?
13 >
14 > There was a blocker (small b) because virtual/udev needed sys-fs/udev and
15 > that gave a blocker that uninstalled eudev.
16 >
17 >
18
19 I believe it's 'b' if user doesn't have sys-fs/eudev in
20 /var/lib/portage/world, but 'B' if he does
21 As in, difference is soft and hard blocker depending if the wanted
22 implementation is recorded in the world file or not

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Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>