On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:23:39 +0200 > Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> As discussed on IRC, there is still no consensus for installing the >> udev files with systemd, which is the beginning for the block and the >> virtual. So we should first sort that point out, before we even start >> to think about an ebuild for an udev virtual. > > Do you have a technical or policy reason prohibiting me from maintaining > a systemd ebuild following the upstream policies? >
It sounds like we have two packages that COULD provide udev - udev and systemd. If we decide for both of them to provide udev then we need a virtual and they need to block (which should make switching more fun). If we decide to keep using the udev package to install udev then we don't need a virtual. I'd view this like the split kde ebuilds. Upstream ships a monster tarball, and we install it in chunks. Just because upstream ships both packages together doesn't require us to install them together. >From a code-reuse standpoint and ease of transition standpoint it makes sense to keep them split, as long as we can have everybody continue to use the same udev codebase. Rich
