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 1Ri6E6-0003Lu-23 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:24:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50B7221C038; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:24:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E5121C038 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:23:14 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlkQAHccA09Ld/Tg/2dsb2JhbABDggWqWoEGgXIBAQEBAwECNxwzCzQSFBQRN4gCtRmIdYI3YwSIN4R5AYUsgiSFX4gihFI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,450,1320642000"; d="scan'208";a="155065939" Received: from 75-119-244-224.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([75.119.244.224]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 03 Jan 2012 10:23:12 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:22:29 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 10:22:29 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3 Message-ID: <20120103152229.GA5764@waltdnes.org> References: <20111115062115.GA3262@waltdnes.org> <20111121104724.GC7461@waltdnes.org> <20111201194544.GD4455@waltdnes.org> <20120103100445.GD1961@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 0667f1ad-6f4b-484d-ae78-fe87f9265c74 X-Archives-Hash: 0b6690dc29cc3cb6dc85238098d4a930 On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:22:09PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote > (Come to think of it, has *any* distro ever attempted this... > 'unconventional of going udev-free?) Alpine linux has done it http://alpinelinux.org/ Unfortunately, they're so minimalistic and server-oriented that they use uclibc instead of glibc. So Alpine is not viable as a desktop distro. Think of it as Gentoo with mdev instead of udev == Alpine with glibc instead of uclibc By the way, there's a thread on the Gentoo developer list discussing the situation, and the proposed move of a bunch of stuff to /usr. See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=post_view_flat;post=245148;page=1;mh=-1;list=gentoo;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC I piped up with my proposal. We'll see what happens. -- Walter Dnes