[arch-general] What can be deleted, when not using systemd - was: polkit package upgrade patch

Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.talk at gmail.com
Mon Aug 13 02:53:28 EDT 2012


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2012 3:17 AM, "Kevin Chadwick" <ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> I've been wondering lately whether there is a good reason why even udev
>> violates the "one thing and do it well" principle set forth by the
>> co worker of the designer of C and Unix as it not only dynamically
>> creates devices like mdev does but also hotplugging like hotplugd on
>> OpenBSD. Hopefully there is a config option or you would need an
>> alternative if you want static dev files and hotplugging.
>
> This is completely wrong. Udev does not create any device nudes.
>
> Tom

I'd hope not, there's under-age users of Linux to consider.


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