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crocket
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 Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2021 2:09 pm Post subject: Is it not very difficult to use mdev on a desktop computer? |
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I have qutebrowser which depends on qtwebengine which in turn depends on virtual/libudev.
Retroarch has udev USE flag which is enabled for now. dev-libs/libinput requires virtual/udev.
It seems infeasible to unmerge eudev, but I may be able to use mdev without unmerging eudev.
Is mdev not going to break things? |
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Logicien
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If you emerge all those /dev directory managers you may have the choice to choose the virtual/udev between a list using eselect. En passant, from devfs to udev there a been big debates. Now from udev to eudev and mdev it complicate the debate. For me Udev do a good job with and without systemd but I know only it and devfs.
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GDH-gentoo
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| crocket wrote: | | Is mdev not going to break things? |
Hard to tell without looking at each package's code, but it probably is going to break things. Some libudev functions simply access files in /sys, which are exposed by the kernel itself, so maybe you could get away with that. But other functions access information kept by the udev daemon (/run/udev/* stuff I guess), which would be nonexistent if you run mdev, so that will likely break. |
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