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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 02:50:31
Message-Id: 20130804025014.GA3702@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev by Samuli Suominen
1 On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 02:42:36AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote
2
3 > nope, you just believed all the FUD there has been out there.
4 > i've said it many times, and i'll say it again:
5 >
6 > the only real different is USE="rule-generator" and that's it
7 >
8 > and sys-fs/eudev is constantly out of date and haven't developed any
9 > features of their own
10
11 udev, the red-headed stepchild of systemd, hasn't exactly had a lot of
12 new features, either. The following "FUD" brought to you by
13 "Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc." http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-August/006066.html
14
15 > Well, we intent to continue to make it possible to run udevd outside
16 > of systemd. But that's about it. We will not polish that, or add
17 > new features to that or anything.
18 >
19 > OTOH we do polish behaviour of udev when used *within* systemd
20 > however, and that's our primary focus.
21 >
22 > And what we will certainly not do is compromise the uniform
23 > integration into systemd for some cosmetic improvements for
24 > non-systemd systems.
25
26 Straight from the horse's mouth, udev won't be getting new features
27 and the systemd maintainers' main target is integration into systemd.
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29 --
30 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
31 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications