On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:32 PM Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On 07/24/2018 12:24 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > > For example, dhcpcd integrates with udevd via libudev to ensure that > > udev has finished renaming your network interfaces before dhcpcd > > attempts to configure them. I believe lvm2 uses libudev to prevent > > various races in block device setup and metadata gathering. > > Both of those have IUSE="+udev", which is fine for any package where the > maintainer knows that udev support is critical. You yourself aren't even > sure what it does for lvm2, though -- how are you going to convince me I > need it? > > > > Developers don't add udev support just for the hell of it > > hahahahahahaha your premise is that the people writing software aren't > all idiots, and I deny it. >
So upstream developers are all idiots, and Gentoo maintainers always know best? If that's your attitude, I won't bother arguing with your further.
