Re: [gentoo-amd64] Please get me straight about sysvinit vs. systemd, udev vs eudev vs mdev, virtuals and other things...

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 12:20:29 -0600
> Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > I have never used udev/eudev/mdev or anything similar and, if I am allowed
>> > to nave a choice, I never will.
>>
>> You will always have that choice, since the software is free.
>>
>
> That's not true anymore.  My USB scanners will not operate unless udev
> is able to create an entry within the /dev tree.
>
> Fortunately, I was able to discover a work-around that does not require
> udev, but the point is that freedom of choice is starting to disappear.
> Udev will eventually be the *only* way to deal with hardware.

While I understand your point these two comments contradict each
other, or more accurately, the first was inaccurate in the sense that
someone needed to create your /dev entry, either udev or you, it
didn't matter. Once it was there your scanner worked, correct?

Again, I do understand the concern. Never having run systemd I have it
also. However the more I read the more tame the concerns seem to be.
They do, however, still exist...

- Mark