On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:54:31 +0100 Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Having read through their discussions, it seems that the main two > things they would like to change is to be able to build udev without > building systemd (this does of course not change the resulting code, > but saves time if you have to build everything locally) and to make > the dependency on kmod optional (this might make sense if you don't > have module support in your kernel, but I think the difference would > not be measurable in any way). Odd, my take was that the main goal was trying to bring back a separate /usr. I did post to the arch-general mailing a while back about why the FSF is wrong on there being no need for a seperate /usr and putting everything in there without static core binaries in a smaller root is less reliable. I now wonder if that is because it was broken anyway and lennart gave a seemingly reasonable justification that may reduce the complaints. The other reason I noted was less dependency on upstream decisions or breakages and this one may have been the debian list but keeping dbus off servers.
