[Buildroot] What to do about systemd/udev/eudev?

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:52:36 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> > Also, Olivier's patch doesn't update all the packages that depend on
> > udev so that they can either depend on the old udev, or systemd.
> 
>   Yes, that's what Olivier's patch does: packages that depend on udev 
> will use the old udev, not the systemd udev.
> 
>   Hm, just now I realized that that means that you get two udevs when 
> using systemd...

Yeah, yes this is what I meant by "Olivier's patch doesn't update all
the packages that depend on udev so that they can either depend on the
old udev, or systemd."

> OK, so this is not really the way to go :-(

Well, it might be the way to go, but it needs a bit more work.

We can make a udev-virtual package, or whatever the name, that will
depend on the old udev or systemd.

Best regards,

Thomas
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