Tanstaafl wrote: > I should have added that this is for a server (not hardened), so I > don't care about hot plug this or that, I just care about stability > and reliability with respect to updates not breaking booting > capability... > >
As far as I know, it is actively maintained. Do I see the people banging hammers, no. lol I did have a update on eudev tho: Sun Feb 10 20:07:23 2013 >>> sys-fs/eudev-1_beta2-r2 merge time: 55 seconds. This is from the changelog for eudev: 10 Mar 2013; Anthony G. Basile <bluen...@gentoo.org> eudev-9999.ebuild: Remove hacky export ac_cv_path_GPERF=true since the check is merged upstream 10 Mar 2013; Anthony G. Basile <bluen...@gentoo.org> eudev-9999.ebuild: Depend on gperf only if USE=keymap, bug #452760 20 Feb 2013; Anthony G. Basile <bluen...@gentoo.org> files/40-gentoo.rules: Sync 40-gentoo.rules with sys-fs/udev, bug #457868 *eudev-1_beta2-r2 (10 Feb 2013) 10 Feb 2013; Anthony G. Basile <bluen...@gentoo.org> +eudev-1_beta2-r2.ebuild, -eudev-1_beta2-r1.ebuild: Rev bump to push out root fix, bug #456384 09 Feb 2013; Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> eudev-1_beta2-r1.ebuild, eudev-9999.ebuild, +files/eudev-hwdb-offset-root.patch: Update eudev ebuilds to support ROOT properly It seems the latest change was March 10 which was not long ago. As I mentioned earlier, I have plugged in USB sticks, cameras, printers and such pretty regular. The eudev fork has worked fine for me. Servers seem to worry less about *new stuff* since they usually run with what they have at boot time anyway. Heck, mdev may would work fine for you too. It seems based on reading the -dev list that udev is about to introduce some more changes. I'm hoping those don't affect me either. I just noticed that someone else on this list has ran into the news message for it too and has questions already. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!