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 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SpAHf-0008E4-3k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:41:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76908E057F; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:41:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56CC0E01DC for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:40:41 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgsKAG6Zu0/O+J12/2dsb2JhbABEsnYDgRiBCIIVAQEEATocKAsLNBIUJTeICQW6BQSLCFqBRII8YgONPodchV+IOoFYgwU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="193171725" Received: from 206-248-157-118.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([206.248.157.118]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 11 Jul 2012 23:40:39 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:40:36 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:40:36 -0400 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev Message-ID: <20120712034036.GA2439@waltdnes.org> References: <20120710171800.493a7c4c@pomiocik.lan> <4FFC813B.7090501@gentoo.org> <20120711091510.52b44e08@pomiocik.lan> <4FFD7949.4000204@gentoo.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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 9b733539-c610-45a1-b271-2a11f42ef04b X-Archives-Hash: 9f9213c29a5cf26633f9fc01dcbf0cfc On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 09:49:18AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote > Walter Dnes (very active over in gentoo-user) has put a lot > of work into testing and documenting mdev as an alternative for > udev. There's been a good deal of success there, up to and including > it working with GNOME 2. The work's been documented on the wiki: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev I'm now testing automount under mdev. No GUI required. I hope to have a wiki page up soon. As for GNOME and KDE, they're trying to become OS's in their own right. What can I say? There are a lot of alternative desktop environments and window managers. That's my target. -- Walter Dnes