aiui you could compile udev separate from systemd. And I'm on gentoo. Not that I notice these things but my init system is OpenRC (I think - it's the default, whatever) and I'm running udev - udev 171-r8 to be precise.
iirc they may be the same code base, but they are two separate builds - the code bases merged because so much was duplicated.
Posted Nov 17, 2012 17:14 UTC (Sat) by engla (guest, #47454)
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I think you need to build both udev and systemd, but you can install just the udev products.
syslog vs other solutions
Posted Nov 17, 2012 18:47 UTC (Sat) by jrn (subscriber, #64214)
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> The systemd/udev maintainers have recently announced that compiling udev without systemd is no longer supported
That is frightening. Regardless of what you think of systemd, the udev maintainers have just said loudly and clearly "We don't care about you" to a substantial existing population of users.
syslog vs other solutions
Posted Nov 17, 2012 19:38 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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I've checked the recent posts in udev's mail list and I can't find what dlang is talking about.
syslog vs other solutions
Posted Nov 17, 2012 23:18 UTC (Sat) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647)
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"We support stand-alone *operation* of the udev tools, but the build
system does not support a stand-alone *build*. The systemd tree needs
to be built and udev picked out of it."
syslog vs other solutions
Posted Nov 18, 2012 0:13 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
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it's not recent news.
The recent news is that some Gentoo developers have (sortof) announced that they are planning to fork udev as a result of how it's being managed since being merged into systemd