Hello, Walter,
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:00:52PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:05:34PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote
> > I also did "2> {system,world}.err". system.err was empty. I've included
> > world.err in the enclosed tarball.
> From your error listing, it looks like lvm2, kde, and gnome (including
> the XFCE subset) require udev. Ouch.
:-) This cannot be the case. Otherwise somebody would have said. Hmm.
What we could do with is a "requires xdev", for x in (m u). I've
forgotten what that's called in portage.
There are surely lots of packages marked "need udev" which don't really
need it at all. I mean, are there any programs which need precisely
udev to work, as opposed to a populated /dev?
I mean, what does udev give me that mdev won't? That's not really a
rhetorical question. What potential benefits am I throwing away by
converting to mdev?
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> Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
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