On Mon, 2020-08-10 at 13:52 +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > On 2020-08-09 23:14, William Hubbs wrote: > > Here is something else to consider. > > > > Blueness and any of the other eudev maintainers are doing good work > > for alternative c library support such as musl. In fact, the musl > > profiles hard mask sys-fs/udev, so they are covered no matter what > > happens as a result of this thread. > > > > Eudev is supposed to be udev without systemd along with alternative c > > library support, but it appears to be behind what eudev offers. > > > > The following commit appears to be the last time eudev synced with udev: > > > > https://github.com/gentoo/eudev/commit/2ab887ec67afd15eb9b0849467f1f9c036a2b6c8 > > > > There are roughly 100 commits in the udev master branch since the date of > > this > > sync: > > > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commits/master/src/udev > > > > There are several new commits in libudev and udev rules since then as > > well: > > > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commits/master/src/libudev > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commits/master/rules.d > > > > I would like to publically thank Leio for providing me with the > > information above. > > > > I asked the council for guidance and was told that they don't need to be > > involved, so I guess the best thing to do now is call for testers. > > > > It would be helpful if people migrate their systems manually from eudev to > > udev > > and report issues. > > > > I'm not a valid test case because I have always run udev. > > This is not answering my questions. > > If anything from above would be valid (like others have asked you for > bugs and already mentioned that commit count alone don't say anything) > we wouldn't just be talking about switching default for *new* > installations. Instead we would need to talk about ditching eudev in > general... > > So for me it still looks like change for change's sake without a real > reason. >
...or a revert of a change made for change's sake. In the end, it all boils down to preference of a single person, and potential of another person reverting it. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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