Conflict between Gnome, udev, hotplug and linux-2.4

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Thu Nov 16 17:27:22 CET 2006


On Marco d'Itri wrote:
> I would suggest letting hotplug and udev coexist, and turn hotplug into
> This used to not be possible. It *may* be possible now that udev does
> not use the /sbin/hotplug interface anymore, but I'd rather not
> introduce such a change so late before the release (and do not have the
> time to investigate and eventually plan the details right now).
> Do you really believe that there is a relevant number of users who want
> to run 2.4 kernels on a desktop system and care about hotplugging?

No, but I think there will be a relevant number of users transitioning through
this state (IIRC release notes recommend to upgrade userland first, then
kernel).  For some, their network will stop working and they'll have to figure
out how to bring it up.

Another idea: how about loosening the dependency from Gnome on udev ?  This way,
upgrading gnome-desktop-environment won't force removal of hotplug.  Later, when
linux-image-2.6 is installed, this will drag udev in, when we're ready for it.

This could be done in many ways:

  - In any part of the dependency chain between gnome-desktop-environment and
    udev.
  - Loosening as lowering to Recommends, or as adding hotplug as an alternative.

Perhaps a good choice would be to get gnome-desktop-environment to depend on:

  "gnome-volume-manager | hotplug"

I suppose when udev is going to force removal of hotplug, apt will be smart
enough to force install of gnome-volume-manager ? (rather than forcing
removal of gnome-desktop-environment)

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