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 1RE2eM-00047f-IQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:31:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F6FD21C0B7; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F227F21C096 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:30:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gye5 with SMTP id 5so1237473gye.40 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:30:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1weF7cn5DO1cAWPoHIFZ2Nc5uoQW1gKQuXcZPbBI2/A=; b=o/z8F6OOeOREjfChTWBmSz7z+dLVxEQbkxZhocDwr58iIEi4TVJiLw0PDAF4QpHLgm UuXssXwfiUYyAcM0R3c7DdWJevw+ya76szYkcKeV57yMkJM4EkCdVzc9uV+MI6QH8mEo 18vW+TYJs6wqXhBqiQ1o5LK9sZVUcomgBGsWE= Received: by 10.150.196.13 with SMTP id t13mr1586943ybf.69.1318440643070; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:30:43 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.151.50.7 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:30:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111012130949.GB8613@waltdnes.org> References: <20111012044023.GA8203@waltdnes.org> <20111012090517.2e8446be@pomiocik.lan> <20111012130949.GB8613@waltdnes.org> From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:00:23 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2fi5SsBbo8vScuHDwL1xHCmA4JE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 631ecb422300f3b8fb9fecf22eaf0502 On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> Goodbye desktop users then. >> >> We recently dropped HAL. Now all the magic that was done by HAL (and >> required udev anyway) is done through udev directly. > > =C2=A0My system worked just fine before HAL was introduced, thank you. = =C2=A0I > always had sys-apps/hal and sys-apps/dbus in /etc/portage/package.mask > and my system continued to work just fine, thank you. =C2=A0Given the gre= at > HAL fiasco, the fact that HAL has been incorporated into udev is yet one > more reason for dropping udev . > Then please continue with udev in package.mask and kindly stop trying to impose your workflow on the rest of the world. This thread is a waste of time. --=20 ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team