[mythtv] Ticket #6137: udevinfo has been replaced by 'udevadm info'

Paul Bender pebender at san.rr.com
Wed Aug 19 01:30:20 UTC 2009


Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Nigel Pearson at 18/08/09 23:53 did gyre and gimble:
>> 2) None of my Linux boxes have libudev, or DBus/HAL,
>> so I'm not personally keen to go in that direction.
> 
> As time goes on it'll be harder and harder to avoid using libudev and 
> dbus I'd reckon.
> 
> Certainly the default audio system on pretty much all distros now 
> requires libudev and dbus, so you'll be hard pushed to find a distro 
> that doesn't support these packages and install them be default.

I do not include does not include libudev, DBus or HAL in MiniMyth. For 
systems running as dedicated MythTV frontend appliances, there is no 
need for libudev, DBus or HAL. For these systems, basic udev 
functionality is more than sufficient.


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