Re: [gentoo-user] Straight from the horse's mouth

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 05:52:11 -0400
"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:

> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-August/006066.html


So, what is it going to take to convince Lennart that, contrary to what
he thinks, he actually isn't the only human on the planet?

I'd like to hear GregKH's take on this


> 
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> Well, we intent to continue to make it possible to run udevd outside
> of systemd. But that's about it. We will not polish that, or add new
> features to that or anything.
> 
> OTOH we do polish behaviour of udev when used *within* systemd
> however, and that's our primary focus.
> 
> And what we will certainly not do is compromise the uniform
> integration into systemd for some cosmetic improvements for
> non-systemd systems.
> 
> (Yes, udev on non-systemd systems is in our eyes a dead end, in case
> you haven't noticed it yet. I am looking forward to the day when we
> can drop that support entirely.)
> 
> Lennart
> 
> --
> Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.
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> 
>   Plan B... toot... (blowing my own horn)
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB
> 



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Alan McKinnon
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