On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:08:22 +0100 Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Ohey, > > I've opened a bug at: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573922 > > The idea here is to change the order of the providers of virtual/udev. > For existing installs this has zero impact. > For stage3 this would mean that eudev is pulled in instead of udev. > > The rationale behind this is: > > * eudev is an in-house fork, and there's more than a dozen distros > already using it by default that are not us. Which is a little bit > weird ... > > * Both udev and eudev have pretty much feature parity, so there won't > be any user-visible changes > > * udev upstream strongly discourages standalone udev (without systemd) > since at least 2012 > > (see for example: > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-June/005516.html > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/618 > ) > > So it'd be (1) following upstreams recommendations and (2) dogfooding > our own tools. I don't see any downsides to this :) > +1 I switched to eudev a few years ago and glad I did. The non-systemd profiles should have eudev as default. -- Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
