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Author: Arnt Karlsen
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 22:13:06 +0100 (CET), karl@??? wrote in
message <20160104211307.20A5D809D79B@???>:

> Rainer Weikusat:
> > karl@??? writes:
> > > chaosesqueteam@???:
> > >> I don't understand the desire to change it at all.
> > >
> > > And neither do I.
> > > Except someone talked about ssl libs.
> >
> > Someone wrote about some PAM module which would require OpenSSL. No
> > such PAM module currently exists on my system and I don't quite
> > understand why 'PAM modules' would be needed for booting a system,
> > anyway.
> >
> > But udev wants to put its rules files below /usr by default and as
> > far as I know, changing this requires patching the code.
>
> Don't use udev so cannot check that. Perhaps time for devuan to
> switch to vdev, is it ready for prime time ?
>
> Why don't udev place its rules close to the kernel modules directory,
> that would make more sense, or put them under /etc as is the
> conventional wisdom. But then, /etc-less systems are thought about:
>
> http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html


...which is also © Lennart Poettering.
Let them systemd guys prove us wrong in the _long_ run. ;o)

..in the short term, I'm pleasantly surprised to see more
traffic here in devuan-* than in debian-user. ;oD

--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.