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 should hold them to that promise.
>> 
>> If they break their promise (as it seems they are bent on doing), then
>> we should go ahead with the fork as discussed earlier. I'm sure other
>> distros such as Debian and Slackware would be happy to join us in that
>> effort.
> 
> If we fork, then I would expect systemd to actually require its own udev
> which means that systemd would need to build it anyway. What's the
> point?


Being able to choose not to run systemd at all?  If there's no need to 
build systemd, than what it requires is irrelevant.

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