Frank Peters <frank.pet...@comcast.net> skribis: > On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 12:40:59 -0500 > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > Honestly, there is no shortage of people offering their opinions. > > What there is a shortage of is people actually doing work to make > > (e)udev do anything differently. In the end people can complain as > > much as they want, but unless they fork over effort or dollars or > > something they won't get terribly far. > > > > Work? What work? > > I have never used udev/eudev/mdev or anything similar and, if I am allowed > to nave a choice, I never will. > > Manually creating a /dev tree that perfectly reflects ones own system > is rather trivial. That's how Linux used to be and that's how Linux, > for the most part, still is. There is, or at least should be, no need > for udev or any substitute for udev. > > IOW, udev should be developed as a nice, helpful option for those who > want such nice, helpful options. But it always should be just that: optional. > Once it stops being a choice then we begin to deviate greatly from > the once sacrosanct principles of free software.
I second everything here. There is very little achieved by udev that is of any appreciable benefit to a Gentoo user, who could easily create nodes and set their permissions without having to do anything complicated. (Disclaimer: Currently I am using eudev, without pleasure.)
