On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 5:39 AM <k...@aspodata.se> wrote: > > Dear package maintainers, > please do not mess with preexisting files in /dev. > > I have static /dev and that suit me well for quite a few systems that > has a static environment, especially system that are intended to run > for a long time and where I tend to minimize the number of running > processes, every running process is something that can go wrong. > Their /dev/ files are set up for their intended use, and I don't want > surprises there. > > When upgrading it isn't easy to see what package that did > something to /dev so it isn't easy to bug the guilty party. > > If sys-fs/static-dev is installed, please do not touch /dev, > if you want you can leave suggestions in some file.
This blanket request is unlikely to yield any useful results. ebuilds don't generally do anything with /dev. Changing behavior based on the presence of sys-fs/static-dev is probably not a good idea. If you can identify specific packages that have caused you problems, we can probably resolve them.
