On 07/14/2012 04:34 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > [snip] >> A lot of that is optional. The only hard dependencies are: >> >>> =sys-apps/kmod-5 >>> =sys-apps/util-linux-2.20 >> dev-util/gperf >>> =dev-util/intltool-0.40.0 >> virtual/pkgconfig >> virtual/os-headers >> >> Everything else is optional. I repeat: the idea that udev is somewhat >> "bloated" or "fat" is really incorrect.
> Little correction: inherit autotools brings things like automake and > libtool, but then again, almost *every* Gentoo installation has those. build dependencies should not count. =) The bare udev shouldn't be that huge, then you start look at the glib integration and such and it might get a bit more than you'd like. Forking udev and making sure it stays as lean as possible isn't that bad. Making mdev a bit richer and enjoy the speed advantage of busybox over stand alone shells could be another option. Most of the perceived speed in non-shell init systems is due not having to spawn as many processes. A full busybox wouldn't spawn many processes. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero