On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 13:02:01 -0700 Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev > > Quoting the latter: > > Will mdev work on my system? > > The mdev application is definitely suitable as long as the system > does not use a full-fledged desktop environment. Note that a desktop > environment is not required to run AbiWord, Firefox, GIMP, Gnumeric, > etc. However, KOffice applications like KMail seem to pull in most > of KDE as a dependency. In general, when using KDE or GNOME, mdev is > not suitable. Also using LVM might be troublesome. Wait a minute. This is getting interesting. I seem to hear you saying that, until Devuan has vdev, I could replace udev with mdev from busybox, but only if I don't use a "full-fledged desktop environment." Can I assume for this email thread that a "desktop environment" is a UI that has a distinct part that serves as a window manager? If so, what makes a desktop enironment "full-fledged?" Would it be by any chance that it gets started up by a display manager, instead of by the startx command? You're a server guy, whereas I'm a desktop guy who likes to have his underlying operating system built like a server. Given my situation, it looks to me like I'd need to just replace udev commands with mdev commands in a few rc scripts and init scripts. That sound reasonable? Thanks for letting us know about this. SteveT Steve Litt June 2017 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
