On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nathan Coulson wrote: >> Looks like Gentoo have announced their udev fork, eudev >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/81901 >> >> I think this would fulfill our requirements, especially if more >> problems occur with supporting standalone udev. > > There are a few issues here. First, they are not releasing a tarball. > We would have to make our own. > > Second, one issue they seem to address is that udev has problems when > loading modules. Since we generally encourage out users to minimize > modules, that is really not an issue for us. > > Third, they want to support older installations. Our users can > generally do that with older versions of udev. > > Fourth, our build is very fast (about 10 seconds for me). Not going > through configure is, IMO, an asset. > > Fifth, the code is basically at an initial public beta stage. > > That said, it is a project to watch. > > -- Bruce
Agreed. Still worth watching. -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
