From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F389D1381F3 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 23:44:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE957E0A49; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 23:44:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5FDEE09F3 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 23:44:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.169.143.54] (85-76-6-90-nat.elisa-mobile.fi [85.76.6.90]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ssuominen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9281D33EAF6 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 23:44:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51FAF26C.2040107@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 02:42:36 +0300 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130716 Thunderbird/17.0.7 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev References: <51FA8CB6.60000@libertytrek.org> <51FAEEC6.9000006@iinet.net.au> In-Reply-To: <51FAEEC6.9000006@iinet.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 09b7cccd-ca5b-474e-8052-5b40b6ad3ed5 X-Archives-Hash: 2d9161c40b79930e90c57967720af1ce On 02/08/13 02:27, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 02/08/13 00:28, Tanstaafl wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs >> systemd thread. >> >> I have an older server that I have been putting off this update, >> debating on whether to update to the regular udev, or to eudev. >> >> I've googled until my fingers are blue, but cannot for the life of me >> find any explicit instructions for *how* to switch from udev to eudev. >> >> The eudev project page is sparse, to say the least. >> >> Anyone? >> > > Something like > > olympus ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.mask >> =sys-fs/udev-180 > ... > olympus ~ # > > olympus ~ # grep udev /etc/portage/package.keywords > sys-fs/eudev ~amd64 > =virtual/udev-206 ~amd64 > olympus ~ # > > unmerge everything udev && emerge eudev > > its been much less fuss and bother than trying to stick with the udev > machinations - I have maybe 15 machines and vm's running eudev, no udev > ... :) nope, you just believed all the FUD there has been out there. i've said it many times, and i'll say it again: the only real different is USE="rule-generator" and that's it and sys-fs/eudev is constantly out of date and haven't developed any features of their own so why follow with unreliable fork, when there is the official package available with equal features?