Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

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

On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 17:05:19 -0800
Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:

>    I really don't see why I'm the one getting banged on here but
> that's life sometimes. I saw a problem for a couple of months. It
> frustrated me but not enough to do anything about it. Solving it
> finally bubbled up high enough on my list that I finally asked if
> others were having the same problem. (which they were, and which they
> also considered a problem) Before anyone had actually answered me I
> had posted one way that folks who cared could fix it. I thought I was
> doing the community a small service by getting a little bit of
> technically positive info out there. I guess not in this case.



You're not getting banged on, as Michael said udev is a polarizing
piece of software.

Life is full of silly and not-so-silly conventions and /dev/dvd is one
of them. It has no good reason to be there, and equally no good reason
to not be there, but you already fixed your stuff to make it do what
you want.

"It's not a bug" should be read more as "upstream is probably going to
ignore you" if you log a bug. In my opinion of course.

Do stick around, you are up there in the list of people who make
many useful posts.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com