From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1REM4H-0007AD-NR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:15:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DE7F21C04C; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:15:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D41121C0D3 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:14:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (wap01-3208.math.ncsu.edu [152.1.252.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tomka) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D6A031B4013 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:14:42 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:12:52 -0400 From: Thomas Kahle To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev Message-ID: <20111013141252.GU17719@denkmatte.math.ncsu.edu> References: <20111012044023.GA8203@waltdnes.org> <20111012090517.2e8446be@pomiocik.lan> <20111012130949.GB8613@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2xzXx3ruJf7hsAzo" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111012130949.GB8613@waltdnes.org> X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fa40a7cca7033dd797fa61a0425e2729 --2xzXx3ruJf7hsAzo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09:09 Wed 12 Oct 2011, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Goodbye desktop users then. > >=20 > > We recently dropped HAL. Now all the magic that was done by HAL (and > > required udev anyway) is done through udev directly. >=20 > My system worked just fine before HAL was introduced, thank you. I > always had sys-apps/hal and sys-apps/dbus in /etc/portage/package.mask > and my system continued to work just fine, thank you. Given the great > HAL fiasco, the fact that HAL has been incorporated into udev is yet one > more reason for dropping udev . https://www.xkcd.com/963/ --=20 Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ --2xzXx3ruJf7hsAzo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQEIAAYFAk6W8eQACgkQQYXt1pFHaaGaUwP+MQERdQZ4ScB3zsFwYuex61+b sCBt9zCy1/H1R65QwNJWpUSyBHYeYEC5FcXdkGA62GXDms0nWtVpEU3dMlUoHlP0 LSdmbYqCKM3EBPZTVqpb9U8StkEWZxSlE0vQenubFW1GrbPXMIX1fpPlK2fiPUDE 0f8O3nFaUWw3bXq1Rhc= =5RNO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2xzXx3ruJf7hsAzo--