On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 08:44:39AM +0000, Duncan wrote: > You are however correct that it'll be on most systems, at least with > udev-181, since udev won't build without kmod, now. (I found that out > when the build broke on me due to missing kmod, as I've had udev unmasked > for awhile and got 181 before kmod was added as a dep.)
But, one thing about kmod is that you can turn off the command line portions of it completely on a monolythic system since udev just uses the library. That is actually the main reason we are transitioning over to kmod. You do that by putting the following in /etc/portage/package.use: sys-apps/kmod -compat -tools William
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