Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
>> On Friday, September 16, 2011 10:53:47 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
>>> > On Thursday, September 15, 2011 05:05:00 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>> >> "Last time I checked, neither GNOME nor Emacs demanded that Gentoo
>>> >> developers or users had to write a fork/replacement for a core
>>> >> component of the system. GNOME and Emacs just need ebuilds and
>>> >> adapting their configuration to Gentoo-isms. Testing and bug
>>> >> reporting, as usual. The only code needed is some small patches for
>>> >> both and around 200 lines of emacslisp for site-gentoo.el."
>>> >
>>> > Funny that you mention this. There might be something similar brewing
>>> > for
>>> > users of Gnome where quite a few low-level parts will end up being
>>> > mandatory for Gnome:
>>> >
>>> > "...but I'm increasingly seeing talk on the
>>> > gnome side of the "Gnome OS", to include pulse-audio, systemd,
>>> > policykit,
>>> > udev/u* (thus forcing lvm as well, at least lvm installation tho nothing
>>> > forces one to use it... yet, since lvm is required for udisks), etc."
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure the last part is false. I certainly have udisk
>>> installet (it's pulled by gnome-disk-utility), but I don't use LVM. So
>>> there.
>>
>> I don't use Gnome and haven't looked into all this. Udev also doesn't appear
>> to have a LVM-useflag. But as I do use LVM, I can't actually check.
>> Do you have "sys-fs/lvm2" on your system?
>>
>> The ebuild does list it as "RDEPEND".
>
> Yes, I got it installed. I didn't noticed until now. Then again, it
> takes 1 minute to install in my puny laptop, and uses 7 Mb of hard
> drive. But anyhow, I was mistaken: it is forced by udisks.

I think udisks depending on LVM is an error, so I decided I would took
this Saturday and see if I was able to write a patch that makes it
optional. However, as per free software rules, I first visited the
Freedesktop.org bugzilla.

Gustavo Barbieri (who I mentioned before) got there first:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37647

As I said before, Gustavo has contributed a lot to systemd, usually
making stuff optional. I'm sure his patch (or a similar version of it)
will be accepted.

As I keep saying: code talks.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México