Re: [gentoo-project] With regard to udev stabilization

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 05:07:26PM +0800, Ben de Groot wrote:
> On 13 November 2012 10:40, Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Everyone,
> >
> > It is no secret that many of us are unhappy with the direction that udev
> > has taken under the leadership of the systemd developers. That includes
> > Linus Torvalds, who is 'leery of the fact that the udev maintenance
> > seems to have gone into some "crazy mode" where they have made changes
> > that were known to be problematic, and are pure and utter stupidity.'
> >
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/505
> >
> > After speaking with several other Gentoo developers that share Linus'
> > concerns, I have decided to form a team to fork udev. Our plan is to
> > eliminate the separate /usr requirement from our fork, among other
> > things. We will announce the project later this week.
> >
> 
> 
> I applaud this initiative. I would recommend you contact, and try to work
> together with, the existing fork of udev, which is available in layman's
> udev overlay. There is a corresponding thread on our forums.

I already tried to open a dialog with these guys; they seem pretty
hostile; another "our way or the highway" approach seemed to be going on
there [1].

William

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/437570

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