On Tuesday 21 December 2004 17:38, martin f krafft wrote:
> 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.

AFAIK the tarball was only a workaround for older udev versions on which some 
nodes (e.g. /dev/console which is needed for booting) were missing during 
bootup. I guess they're fixed now and there is no problem running udev 
without the tarball.

Thanks, Tobias