Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

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El dom, 18-11-2012 a las 11:13 +0200, Samuli Suominen escribió:
> On 18/11/12 07:19, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote:
> >> Having a builtin is a good idea, but the implementation as a mandatory
> >> dependency on kmod is not. The plan is to reintroduce it as an optional
> >> dependency, so that distributions (and Gentoo users) that do not want it
> >> can avoid it. None of us want to force dependencies on others and there
> >> is no need for this one.
> >
> > You do realize that you didn't really drop the dependency at all, right?
> 
> Exactly what I had in mind. So far I see bunch of regressions (back to 
> bundling code :() in the "eudev" repository and more it deviates from 
> the orig. upstream the less attractive it's looking...
> 
> What should be done, at most, is to cherry-pick and revert the things 
> that killed the sep. /usr support, put it behind an USE flag to the 
> current udev's ebuild, perhaps IUSE="+vanilla", and be done with it.
> 
> - Samuli
> 
> 

+1

@eudev maintainers, Wouldn't that be possible?

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