Re: net-tools future
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 02:37:44PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 20, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> > > You keep missing the point. udev matters in the host system, not in each
> > > context.
> > Do you mean the original point of this thread, about ifrename (which indeed
> > can't be used inside vserver or openvz, can be in xen)? Or do you mean
> > other uses of udev?
> About udev in general.
udev is needed to allow for complex and/or hotplugged hardware. Small
systems have either little, static hardware, or no hardware at all.
> > I have Gnome installed on a sid vserver, used it no farther than a couple of
> > days ago to test something.
> Then you had to have udev installed, because it's a dependency of
> gnome-volume-manager.
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-=============================
pn udev <none> (no description available)
Indeed, that's how I learned that udev breaks vservers. That's in a good
part my fault, I installed the whole bulk of Gnome without trimming things
utterly useless on a headless box. gnome-volume-manager has no place there.
But, let's return to the original claim which I disagree with:
> Every relevant Linux distribution requires udev, and so do many
> important features of Debian systems. Anything not compatible with udev
> is a toy which wastes space in the archive. Welcome to 2008.
I can agree that there's no need to support _hardware-related_ things which
are incompatible with udev. Yet, pieces of Debian which do not need to talk
to hardware directly (ie, 95% of the archive) should not require udev.
I also say that systems without udev installed are legitimate.
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