Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:35:02 -0400
"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:12:09PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:19:48PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote:
> > > 
> > > Looking at @system and what it typically pulls into @world, the
> > > only thing that might cause a problem is udev, although
> > > virtual/dev-manager is in @system, rather than udev. If that
> > > happens, we have a few ways of dealing with that:
> > > 
> > > 1. Patch udev.
> > 
> > I think I can come up with a patch locally that will read rules from
> > /lib/udev/rules.d if that's what we want to do for now.
> > 
> > > 2. Fork udev.
> > 
> > I don't think this is necessary, and it would create more work for
> > us than is needed.
> 
>   3. More support for mdev; e.g.  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev
> and (still in beta) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB
> The next challenge is "custom mdev rules", which should be do-able.

I don't think we should give more support to building a system from
a statically linked rescue suite tool.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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