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 1RDsvo-0005DF-0Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:08:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 412F221C11A; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:08:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6153D21C059 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:08:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so427012wyf.40 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:08:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Yy0oXZ4RTZ/0mtqL3YUt17xHcUiU4UqrzeOkuC9P1T4=; b=e40cBjPo/Ma5VHpl89DsO9VRrEwheSX/tSaRLiy7sb5DJu9kliVl1y0Fw/A8H1Y9RD d+edpV+p5Ls2PBFfjeHHdxmDr58ImAr3taQubKBo7EOdBg8uJO4Db/wcFKmk16cL2PO/ WxdQd/A/xo2bReZUo/1Gy5m+EHgaSGYPtFrYw= Received: by 10.216.230.17 with SMTP id i17mr1946405weq.88.1318403288314; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:08:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.65] (188-221-166-114.zone12.bethere.co.uk. [188.221.166.114]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g20sm1898266wbp.13.2011.10.12.00.08.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Markos Chandras Message-ID: <4E953CD4.3020900@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:08:04 +0100 From: Markos Chandras User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev References: <20111012044023.GA8203@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20111012044023.GA8203@waltdnes.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9d8e8dfa8e1a74406673f8cf3245b508 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 10/12/11 05:40, Walter Dnes wrote: > Hi all > > The other option is to drop udev entirely. As an example, I > suggest looking at Alpine Linux http://alpinelinux.org/ It's a > lightweight server-oriented distro. It uses busybox's mdev instead > of udev, and some other mdev substitutes in place of standard > packages. It uses openrc. Furthermore, "previous versions of > Alpine were based on Gentoo" as per > http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alpine_package so > there should be no problem with us borrowing back from Alpine. > This is a joke right? All the desktop "infrastructure" depends on that. Are you suggesting to make Gentoo an embedded/server only distro? - -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJOlTzUAAoJEPqDWhW0r/LC2rAQAI9+GgYyUZqOPcL8dXa/oDJP 8zAn1w6aJfYW1MJOLlFxx48pYC4G64xencGKUGMyCKdwNGHxEYIAnLIB1fjEIwKz c5gFWjgZyOG1etDJblYtHUEdUDzqVz1EpFmyt/ASxJRsaCOTFv0NyG26tw4cumBT Gpkf/qSwENnSNo+HlMdjlqUzioiSa9afZe/4IkZRKH8NL3UOXEd8Ud605L5YDJoC uErGRamsdRP4XuNU9oB230QVHy2/7vsxZhtDJ3d22MHECF9rpdPfgmZ2zAmUe3ut /NPau8xZG/1udf6REcIZHcg8ERXMl5hO38GuYoyO8/gtxcLLcFaDVMzTzLdaoWg/ H6rB9HhbhZYy9049sPtA2VP+jfCCdriLWpi6G1/XyotgK2e0zgGUIATPskf+Ge5N Nb20Mr2fEbqTgd5SdcPDM4dq0y8at1u8WaAJDfvvy8mvEwwX42GZJK2wsMdY0x/k G85zKQm7pZNnk0V17czUcnkbO+D8Ormw/wImMLrA9KidmC2FbHgPj4qOYAR6Dsso 0i6gvgCai+y0cymTnSYM99xo4KAU/ZKcqGsNtbUKaJ1IwR3tPgGLwHb70NPZF3e5 ssxtG4Su4wo2WGfMfNcPgjTA9hbYW2JGM2s4TH9+V7BVv+wW9b7osyiplJ3f0X7l Kq7yoCCF499m/BMoTgot =cicu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----