Michał Górny schrieb: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:24:27 -0500 > William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:18:00PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: >>> Hello, all. >>> >>> Since nowadays udev is bundled within systemd, we start having two >>> libudev providers: >=sys-apps/systemd-185 and sys-fs/udev. Making >>> the long story short, I would like to introduce a virtual for >>> libudev which would pull in either of those two. >>> >>> There are three USE flags used in conditionals when depending on >>> udev: >>> - gudev - for glib wrapper on udev, >>> - hwdb - to pull in hwids, >>> - static-libs. >>> >>> The former two were previously provided by 'extras' USE flag, >>> and the third was unconditional. >>> >>> I'm attaching an example virtual/libudev which does the job. Sadly, >>> because of the 'extras' compatibility it's a big ugly conditional. >> >> I'm going to ask here, because of the discussion on IRC, that you not >> commit this yet. There are issues still we need to work out wrt >> packaging systemd and udev. > > So, can I commit the virtual and finally start fixing people's systems > or are we going to discuss this to the day when other options are no > longer a possibility and virtual will be necessary? > > You seem still not to understand that upstream *does not care*. > And either way, merging udev and systemd will result that two, four or > six months from now users will need to manually re-adjust their @world > to have the packages split again. >
I wrote it the last time you asked and i write it this time again: NO! Beside that, the last time i wrote you a mail about this topic, where you did not respond at all. So please read it again and answer it. Such change should be properly checked, before we even think about the idea of such a switch. -- Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer
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