From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5DF49138334 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:15:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 575A0E092D; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:15:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pl0-f67.google.com (mail-pl0-f67.google.com [209.85.160.67]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF1D3E0894 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:15:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pl0-f67.google.com with SMTP id f6-v6so1989625plo.1 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 09:15:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=03REYyDImXx1kDAl5DoHKsVBYLS/AchuQJjuHGXldTU=; b=oNhH1NIxHe9HnJN5b3LBq3lE6+u9SRMyTmKCpLNdQIGVQ74WOAROWWHiVWIMJ5TXqU OB1UGz2F8tZO+qN2bYVpi+IUTHKk9rzMPXNJLT47fLRfjRXfNXOSu/wAiaGVUf6nryCh mDqudFijBBGpsax7p0R1nSx6Ntp99rXHRTwb+9P+/HARrayRbuhIs9OPvLZ2iHQZO0Db YW1Z7w+CGC8vJah/b16AfjN+BWAWwPoNqcNugUG0FDsGUSDIxfsfkmyTsYAjnD4y6rem ehzry5bOOI3V38Rq4vasVEJFHECwa+gCILZq20RtJ4RBqv28/QZOTjXi5pfGItsXRuw0 X4VQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOUpUlFZEkiYF9f/HfERWz00t4E1ZiHrusx/9W9ROdvCLB8UWbId1sQ+ 37SUBQTztWebjNzlF5kSXzBqu0NlySHK2h+cJe80bOM5 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AAOMgpdhjUnlU/aP/20cRY+0T6vVCGXJTWosaiijVC6Uc0alB+ZJh3KpNOCh+Q/EY3wBcgjOHafvUxEGb24wQ8lQ3x4= X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:7446:: with SMTP id e6-v6mr17898272plt.161.1532448907229; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 09:15:07 -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 References: <1807933.pnnQJkiJvf@porto> <20180724180503.8875ffefdb016139d45d7bae@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: From: Rich Freeman Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:14:55 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles To: gentoo-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: c8af33ba-2b08-4e14-b3bc-d57489e6bf45 X-Archives-Hash: 16b4f1b15ea6de48b1bf7d62ed1b5db4 On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:06 PM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 07/24/2018 11:39 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > > You can run any system without udev, but you need to be very careful > > about what Linux features you utilize and how you have the system > > configured. > > > > Most Linux servers out in the wild are running udev; your > > configuration is an exception to the common case. > > > > Gentoo users are Gentoo users because Gentoo is easy to customize. I don't believe anybody suggested making Gentoo harder to customize. This is just about setting reasonable defaults. You can run a server without bash, openrc, sysvinit, or glibc. Should these also be removed from the base profile? -- Rich