Re: udev fork

On 13:03 Wed 12 Sep     , Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > On 17:49 Wed 12 Sep     , [email protected] wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I know that many people do not like the way udev development went
> >> recently, therefore we have a systemd-free fork of udev. At the moment
> >> most of the changes (except for systemd integration) have been ported,
> >> and no stability issues are noticed. I hope it will be useful for those
> >> who don't like systemd being pushed in their systems.
> >>
> >> P.S. This maillist seems to be dead for quite a while and most of the
> >> discussion moved to systemd-related lists, so I hope nobody would mind
> >> if we use it as our primary maillist.
> >>
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> > BTW, I totally forgot to include a link to the repo. Here it is:
> > https://bitbucket.org/braindamaged/udev
> 
> A fork is way too much effort.  The only thing you need is a different 
> Makefile.  For a package that is Linux only, using autotools seems to be 
> a tremendous amount of overkill.
> 
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/udev.html
> http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/other/udev-lfs-189.tar.bz2
> 
> Works for us.
> 
>    -- Bruce

This is not entirely true. A different makefile might be a temporary
solution, but udev is already dependent on libsystemd, and I'm afraid
this process may go much much further.


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