On Sep 04, Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> wrote: > The issue is most certainly raised by other distributions. See e.g. the > thread starting with http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/62973 This is about the micromanagement of dependencies which greatly excites Gentoo users, so is not very relevant (and Gentoo itself is hardly relevant anyway). > But I guess Red Hat and Suse decide. Debian does what they do, nobody They are currently providing most of the manpower for developing udev and the related infrastructure so this is pretty much the practical effect, yes. > cares about Gentoo, and Ubuntu does what Debian does. No, wait, they > don't: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/372241 This may become an interesting development, but it is not consistent with the behaviour so far of the Canonical employees involved in the development of udev. > Either you follow the FHS or you don't. You seem to argue that most > distributions don't and that Debian therefore shouldn't either. That's > sad. Please fix the FHS first if you think it should be fixed. Or > leave it alone and fix udev instead. Actually I am carefully avoiding to argue for either side, and trying to provide useful facts instead. On your part, you could try to understand them instead of attributing to me straw man positions. -- ciao, Marco
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