On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:59:22AM +0000, Duncan wrote
> It may very well be that a fork is thus required. I guess we wait and
> see. But I don't see the kde folks being willingly subsumed into a
> gnomeos black hole, and time and again, floss history has demonstrated
> that when there's an immediate need, forks do occur. Both gnome and kde
> have their forks in recent history, xorg is a fork, there's the glibc and
> gcc history, etc. If integration gets too close, a fork /will/ happen.
There already is a lightweight udev implementation ("mdev") included
in busybox. Given busybox's philisophy and goals, we can be certain
that mdev will remain lightweight. I'm not a programmer or developer,
but I was annoyed enough to start what became
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev BTW, there is a sort of "udev rules"
equivalant. See http://git.busybox.net/busybox/plain/docs/mdev.txt
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Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
