From: sickmind@lavabit.com
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev fork
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:09:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120912180909.GA32658@glow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120912174951.GA32608@glow>
On 13:03 Wed 12 Sep , Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> sickmind@lavabit.com wrote:
> > On 17:49 Wed 12 Sep , sickmind@lavabit.com wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I know that many people do not like the way udev development went
> >> recently, therefore we have a systemd-free fork of udev. At the moment
> >> most of the changes (except for systemd integration) have been ported,
> >> and no stability issues are noticed. I hope it will be useful for those
> >> who don't like systemd being pushed in their systems.
> >>
> >> P.S. This maillist seems to be dead for quite a while and most of the
> >> discussion moved to systemd-related lists, so I hope nobody would mind
> >> if we use it as our primary maillist.
> >>
> >> --
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> >
> > BTW, I totally forgot to include a link to the repo. Here it is:
> > https://bitbucket.org/braindamaged/udev
>
> A fork is way too much effort. The only thing you need is a different
> Makefile. For a package that is Linux only, using autotools seems to be
> a tremendous amount of overkill.
>
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/udev.html
> http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/other/udev-lfs-189.tar.bz2
>
> Works for us.
>
> -- Bruce
This is not entirely true. A different makefile might be a temporary
solution, but udev is already dependent on libsystemd, and I'm afraid
this process may go much much further.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-12 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-12 17:49 udev fork sickmind
2012-09-12 17:51 ` sickmind
2012-09-12 18:05 ` Greg KH
2012-09-12 18:09 ` sickmind [this message]
2012-09-12 18:14 ` Greg KH
2012-09-12 18:15 ` sickmind
2012-09-12 18:28 ` Greg KH
2012-09-12 18:33 ` Lucas De Marchi
2012-09-12 20:56 ` Bruce Dubbs
2012-09-12 21:19 ` Greg KH
2012-09-12 21:30 ` sickmind
2012-09-12 22:11 ` Bruce Dubbs
2012-09-12 23:44 ` Allin Cottrell
2012-09-13 0:14 ` Bruce Dubbs
2012-09-13 0:38 ` Allin Cottrell
2012-09-13 2:29 ` Bruce Dubbs
2012-09-13 2:43 ` Paul Bender
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