On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 02/14/2016 09:17 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 11:00:30 -0500 >>> Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> >>>> wrote: >>>>> If, for any reason, eudev should be abandoned - we can just change >>>>> the virtual back. One-line change. >>>> Which is precisely the corresponding argument for not switching the >>>> default to eudev in the first place. >>>> >>> OH, my, this is looking more like you are being paid by systemd peeps... >> Nobody has ever paid me to do anything involving open-source software, >> systemd or otherwise. >> >> My point is just that there is no need to change today, because: >> 1. udev works just fine today >> 2. If udev doesn't work just fine in the future, we can just change >> the virtual. One-line change. >> >> That's all. I'm not saying that there might not be other reasons to >> change the virtual. >> >> I'm just saying that the possibility that udev might break in the >> future isn't any more a reason to change the virtual than the >> possibility that eudev might be abandoned in the future. >> >> I love it when Patrick violently agrees with me. :) >> > Eh yes. If we can avoid a problem we better wait until there is visible > breakage so we can heroically run around like headless chickens and > people see that we do something.
I think you were the first to suggest that if eudev gets abandoned it isn't a big deal. I just pointed out that same is true if udev gets abandoned. > Why are you so insistent on controlling something that doesn't even > affect you? I'm not controlling anything. I'm just offering my opinion. Nobody is bound by it. > As far as users are concerned, most don't care and won't see a > difference, and those that care seem to be strongly in support of having > eudev ... And that would be a valid reason to default to eudev, as opposed to fear that udev might just stop working some day. -- Rich
