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Am Montag, 5. November 2007 schrieb James: |
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> Hello, |
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> I do not read as much as I should, but, I stumbled across this page [1] |
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> that suggests that EVMS is dead. I see it is in portage, but is it |
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> slated for the trash, as time moves forward? Sure it's Ubuntu site, but |
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> they claim EVMS is unmaintained, if you read further down the page. |
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Well, it is currently unmaintained. But does this mean it's dead? I don't |
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think so. All it needs is a new maintainer. On to what ubuntu writes: |
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"...the update manager will recommend that you remove it, failing to do so can |
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render your computer unbootable (or at least, incredibly slow)." |
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Why should it get unbootable? Or slower than before? |
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What they write about bd_claim is completely true and it can happen that with |
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EVMS a device can be claimed multiple times. BUT ONLY IF YOU APPLY EVMS' |
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BD_CLAIM PATCH!! which they obviously did -> their own fault. |
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"EVMS depends on the extremely outdated and unmaintained GTK+ 1.2 libraries, |
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it has not been updated to the GTK+ 2.0 series (currently 2.12.0)" |
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AFAIK, debian has a patch to switch EVMS to gtk+ 2.x. Why doesn't ubuntu use |
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it. Anyway, not a problem for Gentoo, slots to the rescue. |
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"EVMS does not support the vanilla Linux 2.6 kernel, and instead requires that |
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the bd_claim feature be patched out (source: [WWW] |
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http://evms.sourceforge.net/install/kernel.html#bdclaim)" |
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BULLSHIT!! They obviously didn't read that section completely. I use EVMS on |
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vanilla 2.6 kernels w/o the bd_claim patch. |
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However, feel free to step up as a new maintainer :-) |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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