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From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 20:34:28
Message-Id: 52000C36.8050604@libertytrek.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev by Neil Bothwick
1 On 2013-08-05 4:18 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:24:27 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
3 >
4 >>> But there's not a lot of point as eudev isn't that different to udev
5 >>> now, AFAICT, and a recent update forced me to switch back to udev
6 >>> because eudev hadn't been updated (on ~amd64).
7 >>
8 >> Can you elaborate on what this update was that forced you to go back to
9 >> regular udev?
10 >
11 > I can't remember what it was now, and it may have been avoidable by
12 > making virtual/udev-206 (or whichever version it was that needed a higher
13 > udev version than eudev could provide). It's moot now as eudev has been
14 > updated and portage is happy again, but it would be a concern if this
15 > happened regularly.
16
17 Agreed... Anthony, can you comment on the likelihood of this happening
18 in the future? An occasional temporary issue wouldn't trouble me, as I
19 already wait at least a few days before updating anything critical, and
20 it isn't like this kind of thing hasn't happened for regular udev...
21
22 Thanks for the reply Neil...