As per the <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/devfs-guide.xml> and <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml> I recompiled my kernel with pts support, installed udev, and used rc-update to remove devfs from sysinit.
Everything seems to work fine, except that I can't create xterms. If I start up devfs, xterm creation is fine. FWICT, devfs "mounts" /dev/pts , so how do we mount /dev/pts in a post devfs world? TIA