[gentoo-user] packages messing with /dev

[gentoo-user] packages messing with /dev

[karl]

 Dear package maintainers,
please do not mess with preexisting files in /dev.

I have static /dev and that suit me well for quite a few systems that
has a static environment, especially system that are intended to for
a long time and where I tend to minimize the number of running
processes, every running process is something that can go wrong.
Their /dev/ files are set up for their intended use, and I don't want
surprises there.

When upgrading it isn't easy to see what package that did
something to /dev so it isn't easy to bug the guilty party.

If sys-fs/static-dev is installed, please do not touch /dev,
if you want you can leave suggestions in some file.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

Re: [gentoo-user] packages messing with /dev

[Dale]

karl@aspodata.se wrote:
>  Dear package maintainers,
> please do not mess with preexisting files in /dev.
>
> I have static /dev and that suit me well for quite a few systems that
> has a static environment, especially system that are intended to for
> a long time and where I tend to minimize the number of running
> processes, every running process is something that can go wrong.
> Their /dev/ files are set up for their intended use, and I don't want
> surprises there.
>
> When upgrading it isn't easy to see what package that did
> something to /dev so it isn't easy to bug the guilty party.
>
> If sys-fs/static-dev is installed, please do not touch /dev,
> if you want you can leave suggestions in some file.
>
> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar

Most package maintainers are on -dev.  There is a few on here but this
topic may not apply to them.  I'd suggest either filing a bug against
whatever package is touching /dev or maybe posting on -dev mailing
list.  Unless you know what package is doing this, it may not get much
if any response.  Hard to fix something when it is unknown what to fix. 

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)