On 7 April 2013, at 07:00, Joseph wrote: > ... > Are these new udev rules going across all Linux distros or this is something > specific to Gentoo?
I would assume across all distros. Gentoo generally makes a policy of just packaging whatever upstream offers. In fact, the origins of the ebuild is that it does little more than automating the `configure && make && make install` of compiling upsteam's source. I don't see why the Gentoo devs would impose this on us, unless it came from upstream. AIUI the motive for these changes are so that you can unpack an enterprise-type server, the ones with two NICs on the motherboard, and always know which NIC is which. You can then unpack a pallet load of them, and deploy them without any need for determining which is which or for any manual intervention. This is actually pretty important and useful, but I'm not sure this has all been done the best way. Stroller.
