it's about time we start deprecating these things ... we've carried them for 2 years now
Fine with me. Does the subject has a typo? I think you want to say to remove /dev/loop/0 that is the devfs compat name. If I understand you correctly, you mean deleting the first three rules out of 40-gentoo.rules: # old devfs path, removing this could break systems # Bug 195839 KERNEL=="md[0-9]*", SYMLINK+="md/%n" KERNEL=="loop[0-9]*", SYMLINK+="loop/%n" KERNEL=="ram[0-9]*", SYMLINK+="rd/%n"
yes, deleting those first few lines in the gentoo file is what i mean
How to progress on this bug? Should we just remove the rules in udev-141-r1 and add some ewarn to pkg_postinst, or do we need some longer deprecation period (how to announce it then - maybe some news item).
create a USE flag "devfs-compat", default it to on, and then add a warning to pkg_postinst when USE=devfs-compat once that version moves into stable, we delete it from the latest unstable version and let things trickle down
Added in udev-141-r1. Maybe some native speaker can improve the ewarn message.
this breaks losetup -f, see bug #269359
uups, I meant bug #338766
it looks like this bug is done, at least for 197-r3 and above (current stable) vapier: please doublecheck if you have time