On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:51:50 +0800 Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 11 July 2012 03:23, Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Michał Górny schrieb: > >> Hello, all. > >> > >> Since nowadays udev is bundled within systemd, we start having two > >> libudev providers: >=sys-apps/systemd-185 and sys-fs/udev. Making > >> the long story short, I would like to introduce a virtual for > >> libudev which would pull in either of those two. > >> [...] > >> What are you thoughts? > > > > As discussed on IRC, there is still no consensus for installing the > > udev files with systemd, which is the beginning for the block and > > the virtual. So we should first sort that point out, before we even > > start to think about an ebuild for an udev virtual. > > > > So for now: A clear no, i am against adding a virtual/libudev > > ebuild. > > Me too. > > When upstream moved the udev sources to the systemd repo, they > promised that udev would continue to be able to be used separately > from systemd. We should hold them to that promise. > > If they break their promise (as it seems they are bent on doing), > then we should go ahead with the fork as discussed earlier. I'm sure > other distros such as Debian and Slackware would be happy to > join us in that effort. If we fork, then I would expect systemd to actually require its own udev which means that systemd would need to build it anyway. What's the point? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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