| Summary: | kernel-2.eclass wrongly specifies udev as a DEPENDency | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | petre rodan (RETIRED) <kaiowas> |
| Component: | Eclasses | Assignee: | Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel> |
| Status: | RESOLVED LATER | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/eclass/kernel-2.eclass?r1=1.137&r2=1.138 | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
I'm sure this is a dupe but I cant see the original. What I really need to do is a block on devfsd rather than a depend on udev. This was put in a while back because devfsd was dropped on 2.6.13 and udev can happily co-exist. By blocking devfsd, and not depending on udev then users will potentially end up with no /dev manager, which as a whole is a bad thing. I'll have a think about this, but I'm open to ideas since this will effect quite a large number of people. I think udev is in the base system which might mean this is non-issue, but we will see. > I'm sure this is a dupe but I cant see the original. well, maybe it's because I sent this 'bug' as an email a week ago :) the thing that really bothers me is that if I merely install udev, at the next reboot the udevd is being loaded. even if RC_DEVICES="static". I will dig in this direction too. > I'll have a think about this, but I'm open to ideas since this will effect > quite a large number of people. maybe you can add a staticdev USE flag to all kernel ebuilds that won't force udev being installed? Blocking devfsd is a bad idea as it harms people who dual-boot with older kernels such as 2.4 The udev dep was added for ease of migration for the common users, I guess we'll drop it at some point in the future when devfs is phased out even further. For now you can use /etc/portage/package.provided |
I am using static devs everywhere and I do not want to have udev installed. please remove or rethink the following line from kernel-2.eclass: kernel_is ge 2 6 13 && DEPEND="${DEPEND} sys-fs/udev" Is there any real need (that I'm missing) for this dependency?