On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 04:33:44PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:54 PM, William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thinking on this, I agree with Mike here, and to make it easier for
> > maintainers so they don't have to change their dependencies, it should
> > be a udev ebuild with a systemd use flag.
> 
> An alternative to the funky udev[systemd] solution would be to replace
> the entire udev ebuild with RDEPEND="sys-apps/systemd", and implement
> the requisite logic in the systemd ebuild. This would effectively make
> udev a virtual package without the need to modify any other packages.

You would still have funkey logic in the systemd ebuild then, because
you would have to have a use flag, maybe "udev-standalone"
which would make it only install udev, and you would still have to deal
with use flags that don't make sense without systemd being installed.

William

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