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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: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:36:29
Message-Id: 5208D632.8070808@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev by Tanstaafl
1 On 12/08/13 15:17, Tanstaafl wrote:
2 > On 2013-08-12 8:06 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
3 >> True, it won't be dropped for long as people are maintaining it. That's
4 >> how maintainership works.
5 >> But trying to lie to people it's somehow solving something currently is
6 >> annoying as 'ell and should be corrected where seen.
7 >
8 > It is solving the problem of *when* (not if - if the words I have read
9 > from the systemd maintainers can be taken at face value) the systemd
10 > maintainers decide to pull the plug on the ability to have a
11 > systemd-less udev...
12 >
13
14 Then we will carry a minimal patchset on top of sys-fs/udev that will
15 keep it working without systemd for long as it's sustainable.
16 And at this point it's pointless to talk of forking yet, it should be
17 done only when it's required.
18
19 - Samuli

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Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl@g.o>