Question... can mdev replace udev in an ordinary linux distro? Here's
the background...
* The main developer for udev is an employee of Redhat
* He wants udev to be able to run arbitrary binaries/libraries,
(including those in /usr) very early in the boot process
* A very small percentage of users actually need this
* The developer's idea would *FORCE* 100% of all linux users into
either making /usr a true subdirectory on the same physical partion
as / or else booting with initramfs.
* Merging /usr into / goes against years of best-practices
* initramfs can be very difficult to debug if you make a mistake
The udev developer sees nothing wrong with his approach, because
that's the way things are done at Redhat. This arrogance is on par with
the OpenOffice developers who at one point made Java a dependancy for
OpenOffice... did I mention that Sun/Oracle owns Java and controlled
OpenOffice?
I'm not here to trash Fedora. I support their right to be inferior.
But when a Redhat employee uses his position as a udev developer to
force Redhat's ideas down the throats of all other linux distros this
gets many people angry. It has set off a firestorm on the Gentoo User
mailing list.
Gentoo has /bin/busybox as part of the default system. There is also
an option to build busybox with libraries statically linked. IANAPP
(I Am Not A Professional Programmer), but I can do quite a bit of bash
scripting etc. In Gentoo, the user generally knows what peripherals he
has permanently connected to the machine. Plus you'll get the usual USB
keys and external drives being hooked up occasionally.
If mdev can replace udev a lot of Gentoo users would be very happy.
You might even have to start a separate "mdev-users" list <G>.
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Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
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