On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:33:10 +0200 Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Michał Górny schrieb: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:24:27 -0500 > > William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:18:00PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > >>> Hello, all. > >>> > >>> Since nowadays udev is bundled within systemd, we start having two > >>> libudev providers: >=sys-apps/systemd-185 and sys-fs/udev. Making > >>> the long story short, I would like to introduce a virtual for > >>> libudev which would pull in either of those two. > >>> > >>> There are three USE flags used in conditionals when depending on > >>> udev: > >>> - gudev - for glib wrapper on udev, > >>> - hwdb - to pull in hwids, > >>> - static-libs. > >>> > >>> The former two were previously provided by 'extras' USE flag, > >>> and the third was unconditional. > >>> > >>> I'm attaching an example virtual/libudev which does the job. > >>> Sadly, because of the 'extras' compatibility it's a big ugly > >>> conditional. > >> > >> I'm going to ask here, because of the discussion on IRC, that you > >> not commit this yet. There are issues still we need to work out wrt > >> packaging systemd and udev. > > > > So, can I commit the virtual and finally start fixing people's > > systems or are we going to discuss this to the day when other > > options are no longer a possibility and virtual will be necessary? > > > > You seem still not to understand that upstream *does not care*. > > And either way, merging udev and systemd will result that two, four > > or six months from now users will need to manually re-adjust their > > @world to have the packages split again. > > > > I wrote it the last time you asked and i write it this time again: NO! > > Beside that, the last time i wrote you a mail about this topic, where > you did not respond at all. So please read it again and answer it. > Such change should be properly checked, before we even think about > the idea of such a switch. I'm pretty sure I replied to every mail I got from you. And please remind me: what is your relevance to systemd or udev? What do you know about history of those packages? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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