[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package: udev is now provided by systemd or eudev.

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:04:34 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > Right, that's one way of seeing things, indeed. It sounds a bit
> > convoluted to me, though. When a package A needs a specific feature
> > from package B (such as gudev), I believe it makes sense for
> > package B to provide a sub-option that package A can select, rather
> > than package A having intimate knowledge of the dependencies needed
> > by package B to enable whatever feature package A needs to have
> > from package B.
> 
>   Makes sense, but we probably already have tons of these already. If 
> gudev would have been added in the normal way instead of introducing
> the all_extras option, then the implementors of network-manager and
> udisks wouldn't even have noticed that udev had to be compiled in a
> specific way: since these tools already select libglib2, udev would
> have been compiled with gudev support.

True.

>   Really, the all-extras is historical accident because a long time
> ago udev's configure had an EXTRAS=... option in its build commands.

Right. But the extras have more dependencies that just glib2: it also
depends on hwdata and on acl. Will glib2 be sufficient to get gudev
built, for use by udisks? Maybe.

Thomas
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