also sprach Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@fmp.com> [2004.12.21.1731 +0100]:
> The point is that as long as Gentoo provides this feature, which
> overrides udev rules at boot then udev is potentially only useful
> for configuring hot plugged devices on a running system and the
> question of udev rules and permissions.d for setting boot-time
> options is moot.

... for Gentoo systems, yes.

Anyway, since the tarball thingie really just defeats the purpose of
udev, I doubt that Gentoo will support it much longer.

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