On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 12/08/13 15:17, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >> On 2013-08-12 8:06 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> >>> True, it won't be dropped for long as people are maintaining it. That's >>> how maintainership works. >>> But trying to lie to people it's somehow solving something currently is >>> annoying as 'ell and should be corrected where seen. >> >> >> It is solving the problem of *when* (not if - if the words I have read >> from the systemd maintainers can be taken at face value) the systemd >> maintainers decide to pull the plug on the ability to have a >> systemd-less udev... >> > > Then we will carry a minimal patchset on top of sys-fs/udev that will keep > it working without systemd for long as it's sustainable. > And at this point it's pointless to talk of forking yet, it should be done > only when it's required.
It is done ahead so it won't be too late, as you say... eudev is "minimal patch set" over systemd. Someone should have forked the logind as well ahead, so the whole gmone discussion was irrelevant.
