[gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-30 Thread Duncan
Tobias Klausmann posted on Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:03:59 +0200 as excerpted: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Duncan wrote: >> Now, for worst-case comparison, on the same machine, what's the >> respective times for a full systemd build? (I'm not saying actually >> merge it, just configure/compile, plus see the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-30 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Duncan wrote: > Now, for worst-case comparison, on the same machine, what's the > respective times for a full systemd build? (I'm not saying actually > merge it, just configure/compile, plus see the next paragraph.) I think my first set of numbers illustrates that: ju

[gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-29 Thread Duncan
Mart Raudsepp posted on Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:27:48 +0300 as excerpted: > Geode LX700 (433MHz) with 256MB RAM MAKEOPTS=-j2 (single core system) > gcc (Gentoo 4.5.2 p1.1, pie-0.4.5) 4.5.2 > > ebuild prepare done before as well. > > 1. time ebuild foo configure — real time value > 2. time ebuild fo

[gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-29 Thread Duncan
Walter Dnes posted on Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:19:13 -0400 as excerpted: > Note that a fork will have to be be "bug-compatable" to Redhat's > version, just like DR-DOS had to be bug-compatable to MS-DOS, way back > when. And what happens when that "compatability" requires not just > systemd and dbus

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-29 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On N, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 01:57:48PM +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > > > As a first crude datapoint, I compared the build times > > > (configure+make) of udev-171-r6 and -188 on our dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 07:37:49AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote > What I see as the most likely thing to lead to change is if/when > GnomeOS actually starts to exist. When you can't run Gnome without > systemd I'd expect to see a lot more Gentoo users running it. Then > again, if Gnome jumps the sh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-29 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 01:57:48PM +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > > As a first crude datapoint, I compared the build times > > (configure+make) of udev-171-r6 and -188 on our dev Alpha. This > > is a machine that's on the speedier side of off-main

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-29 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 05:12:19PM +0200, Vaeth wrote: > > I doubt that most people consider udev's stand-alone build-time a big > > issue. > > The real issue is not the build-time but the dependencies needed > at build-time (and in future versions perhaps also at run-time): > Currently, these are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-29 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 01:57:48PM +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > As a first crude datapoint, I compared the build times > (configure+make) of udev-171-r6 and -188 on our dev Alpha. This > is a machine that's on the speedier side of off-mainstream > architecures, but as a datapoint, it should be

[gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-29 Thread Vaeth
I doubt that most people consider udev's stand-alone build-time a big issue. The real issue is not the build-time but the dependencies needed at build-time (and in future versions perhaps also at run-time): Currently, these are essentially libcap and dbus. Now that some projects (e.g. hardened

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-29 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Duncan wrote: > So in practice, just what are the sorts of times, relative to stand-alone- > build udev, we're talking about? In all this discussion, what, hundreds > of posts by now?, I've not seen ANYONE actually ask, let alone answer, > THAT. But it would seem to b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > And > by 2-3 years out, if Linux/FLOSS history is any guide, the whole > ecosystem will look different, and we'll have a whole list of new changes > and challenges to worry about, Agreed. I suspect the status quo will remain

[gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-29 Thread Duncan
Ben de Groot posted on Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:06:29 +0800 as excerpted: > For now udev is still usable without systemd, even tho upstream is > making it difficult to build udev separately (and avoid unnecessary > build-time dependencies). Upstream is also unwilling to work with us to > make this easi