On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:56:19PM -0700, C. Brewer wrote: Content-Description: signed data > > Forgive me if I've gone delusional.. I was just under the impression that udev > was going to do everything that devfsd does now _and_ add name mapping, and > apparently I was wrong. I'm just planning for the future since seeing the > udev changes going into our init system.. we got no choice about the devfs > and I feel it's going the same way for udev. I'm not trying to slight the > obviously hard work that was put into it, but what about choice? to devfs or > not to devfs? to udev or not to udev? Or is it merely choice with package > selection, and not with the overall package that is Gentoo? >
You can go without devfs easily. You do, however, need to boot with gentoo=nodevfs to tell the init system you don't want devfs. The choice is there. -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
