On 03/12/2014 4:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev
> <tetrom...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 14:24 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
>>> Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
>>>> Making udev dependency always on is a deliberate choice here
>>>
>>> I thought Gentoo was about users having choice? Sad face.
>>
>> Gentoo is usually about the maintainer's choice ;)
>>
>> So in the end it's up to Pacho:
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504324
> 
> Honestly, of all the suggestions in this thread having the use-enable
> config setting and just outputting a warning when udev isn't enabled
> seems like the best solution.

Agreed, Alex's patch properly addresses the issue I originally raised.  My
initial thinking was to replace virtual/udev with the more generic
virtual/dev-manager, because I didn't dig deep into understanding why
virtual/udev was actually needed (I don't use bluetooth on a daily basis).


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