From: Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About udev-145: new features / extras and kernel requirements
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:35:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257784554.16908.3.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908301611.53087.zzam@gentoo.org>
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On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 16:11 +0200, Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
> Hi there!
A late hello,
> Second point: udev-145 bundles a lot of new extras, but they can only be
> enabled/disabled all or nothing.
>
> These extras are:
> * udev-acl: Apply consolekit permissions to devices for users (audio, video,
> joysticks, scanner, cameras, ...)
> * usb-db: Provide udev-rules with device names of pci and usb devices
> * hid2hci: Special utility to fix resume of some hid devices
> * keymap: Auto-configure model specific keys found on many laptops
> ("brightness up", "next song", "www browser", or "suspend")
> * modem-modeswitch: Switch modems that provide virtual cd-drive with drivers
> to modem mode
I think the thread hasn't seen an answer to the question of when these
are actually used or useful, as asked in another subthread as well.
> * gudev: glib/gobject support for libudev
Would it be possible to have this in a separate package? Of course then
with a temporary compatibility PDEPEND on it with udev[extras] until
packages needing gudev migrate over.
And what of the above listed other things besides core udev does gudev
require or potentially use?
> This makes udev depend on these libs:
> libacl, libglib2, libusb, usbutils, pciutils, gperf
>
> Up to now I have just added use-flag "extras" to control these. But I suppose
> that udev-acl and maybe gudev is a hard requirement for newer hal or
> devicekit versions. And upstream thinks these should be enabled by default.
>
> Are any of these extras considered harmful?
On some non-desktop systems perhaps, yes.
--
Mart Raudsepp
Gentoo Developer
Mail: leio@gentoo.org
Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-09 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-30 14:11 [gentoo-dev] About udev-145: new features / extras and kernel requirements Matthias Schwarzott
2009-08-30 14:24 ` Arun Raghavan
2009-08-30 15:26 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2009-08-30 14:46 ` [gentoo-dev] " Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-08-30 15:45 ` William Hubbs
2009-08-30 16:18 ` Mike Auty
2009-08-31 15:46 ` Jeremy Olexa
2009-08-31 4:25 ` Lars Wendler
2009-08-30 15:05 ` Bruno
2009-08-30 19:20 ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-11-09 16:35 ` Mart Raudsepp [this message]
2009-11-12 9:08 ` Matthias Schwarzott
2009-11-09 19:22 ` Daniel Drake
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