Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-28 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2012.07.27 03:37, Duncan wrote: [snip] Not that such promises hold much credibility anyway... see the kde promise (from Aaron S when he was president of KDE e.v. so as credible a spokesperson as it gets) continued kde3 support as long as there were users. (AFAIK, at least gnome

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-28 Thread Duncan
Roy Bamford posted on Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:51:47 +0100 as excerpted: You don't want to listen to Presidents too much. Look at other real life examples. Would you claim that the President of the Gentoo Foundation speaks for Gentoo? If he were making claims of that nature, yes, barring

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-28 Thread Peter Stuge
Duncan wrote: the responsibility of whatever organization to either follow thru or repudiate, as it's the reputation and credibility of that organization on the line if they don't. I think it's unreasonable to expect any third party to accept responsibility for a receiver which is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-27 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 09:49:04PM -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: [ snip ] 9) Otherwise, at very minimum, they're failing the build udev pretty much the same as before ./configure make make install You fail to see

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-26 Thread Duncan
Canek Peláez Valdés posted on Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:08:35 -0500 as excerpted: Just to clarify, udev/systemd never promised to make the component parts buildable separately. They promised: we will be supporting this for a long time since it is a necessity to make initrds (which lack systemd)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: [ snip ] 9) Otherwise, at very minimum, they're failing the build udev pretty much the same as before ./configure make make install You fail to see the matter from their POV. They don't care (that much) about building, because

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-11 Thread Duncan
Ben de Groot posted on Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:51:50 +0800 as excerpted: When upstream moved the udev sources to the systemd repo, they promised that udev would continue to be able to be used separately from systemd. We should hold them to that promise. If they break their promise (as it seems

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-11 Thread Duncan
Michał Górny posted on Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:15:10 +0200 as excerpted: On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:51:50 +0800 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: When upstream moved the udev sources to the systemd repo, they promised that udev would continue to be able to be used separately from systemd. We

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-11 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:27:48 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Michał Górny posted on Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:15:10 +0200 as excerpted: On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:51:50 +0800 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: When upstream moved the udev sources to the systemd repo, they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Being able to choose not to run systemd at all? If there's no need to build systemd, than what it requires is irrelevant. I think this discussion is getting sidetracked. This didn't start out as a discussion about whether

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-11 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/07/12 06:40 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Being able to choose not to run systemd at all? If there's no need to build systemd, than what it requires is irrelevant. I think

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-11 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/07/12 06:40 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Being able to choose not to run systemd at all? If there's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Walter Dnes (very active over in gentoo-user) has put a lot of work into testing and documenting mdev as an alternative for udev. There's been a good deal of success there, up to and including it working with GNOME 2. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-11 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Walter Dnes (very active over in gentoo-user) has put a lot of work into testing and documenting mdev as an alternative for udev. There's been a good

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 09:49:18AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote Walter Dnes (very active over in gentoo-user) has put a lot of work into testing and documenting mdev as an alternative for udev. There's been a good deal of success there, up to and including it working with GNOME 2. The work's been