On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 03:50:24PM +0100, Steven J Long wrote: > >> To confirm again, that this is about without initramfs: > >> <dberkholz> sure i can. maintain old udev-XXX forever, put an elog in new > >> udev that says "if you want separate /usr without initramfs, install old > >> udev, mask new, or whatever" > > > > systemd and udev are being merged into one tarball. For the > > "foreseeable > > future", it will still build 2 separate binaries. What happens down the > > road if/when it all becomes one combined binary? > > > Well I've read assertions that it will be possible to build udev without > systemd for distros and users who want it, and this is supposedly a firm > commitment into the future. Then again, experience doesn't bode well for > those kind of commitments. > > (It's much easier to introduce coupling between software in the same > package. GregKH has also mooted a tightly-coupled "core" Linux distro, which > afaict is the same reasoning as GnomeOS, and /that/ sounds like a > clusterfsck waiting to happen.)
"mooted"? And since when does having a set of tightly coupled base libraries and systems that work well together somehow turn into "GnomeOS"? Reaching like that is just foolish on your part. greg k-h
