On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:14:55 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:06 PM Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > On 07/24/2018 11:39 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > > > > You can run any system without udev, but you need to be very careful > > > about what Linux features you utilize and how you have the system > > > configured. > > > > > > Most Linux servers out in the wild are running udev; your > > > configuration is an exception to the common case. > > > > > > > Gentoo users are Gentoo users because Gentoo is easy to customize. > > I don't believe anybody suggested making Gentoo harder to customize. > This is just about setting reasonable defaults.
Adding udev to the base profile will make customization much harder for people unwilling to use udev. This is the problem. > You can run a server without bash, openrc, sysvinit, or glibc. Should > these also be removed from the base profile? Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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