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Author: Jude Nelson
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To: Martinx - ジェームズ
CC: dng@lists.dyne.org
Subject: Re: [Dng] What to do with udev? Some ideas...
> I would like to evaluate `vdev` soon as possible.

It's almost ready for an alpha release :) I hope to have Debian packages
up by New Year's. You should be able to compile it and its dependencies at
this point, and it should expose all block and character devices on your
system, subject to your access controls. Still working out a few bugs,
though.

-Jude

On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc@???
> wrote:


> Guys,
>
> I'm wondering here about what to do with `udev`, which is `systemd` in
> fact...
>
> What about this:
>
>
> 1- Rename current `udev` package to `systemd-udev`;
>
> 2- Add `vdev`;
>
> 3- Add `eudev`;
>
> 4- Add `mdev`;
>
> 4- Create a new Metapackage called `udev`, that will Depends on `eudev |
> vdev | mdev | systemd-udev`.
>
>
> This will be very similar to the new `init` Metapackage on Jessie, that
> Depends on `systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core | upstart`.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> Also, I would like to know more about the quality of `eudev` and if it
> worth keeping it, since `systemd` developers will remove its "netlink"
> support (am I right)? Then, `systemd-udev` will depends on `systemd` as
> PID1 in the future (through KDBUS, if I'm not wrong), making it very hard
> to keep `eudev` up to date. Source:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html
>
> I would like to evaluate `vdev` soon as possible.
>
> Best!
> Thiago
>
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