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From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@piing.fr>
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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev;
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The 03/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote:

> (Come to think of it, has *any* distro ever attempted this...
> 'unconventional of going udev-free?)

mdev is not an udev replacement. It's a very minimalist udev designed
for embedded systems and initramfs. These days, a full-featured system
require a dynamic /dev and AFAIK the only existing and up-to-date tool
for this job is udev.

I don't think any other distro attempted to get free of udev as it means
coming back to 10 years ago, at least.

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Nicolas Sebrecht