Owen Taylor (otaylor@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > The value of it on the case of the writable root filesystem is that > you only have one path for how the system works, not two. Changes > to device naming only have to be put into one place. Eventually we > can simple drop the dev package and it's 18,000 files. The issue here is that it's not *that* simple, once you start handling all the devices that aren't in sysfs. Moreover, it breaks the 'load module on device access' model. Going to a fully dynamic /dev is a paradigm shift, even if you keep the same device naming model. > There's a lot of other components of our system which are absurdly > over-configurable in ways that would badly break the system - the > X init scripts, the init scripts, gdm, etc, etc. Isn't turning > over-configurability into a working system one of the main > OS-assembly tasks? Yes, but the raison d'etre of the initscripts or gdm aren't really 'infinite configurability to whatever policy you want'. Yet it's a design goal of udev, or at least, it appears to be. Bill
