On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 9:15 AM Thomas Deutschmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > why do you want to drop the package? Since news item, upstream changed. > There will be a new release soon. Was this just on your list to finish > or is there another reason? > > I am currently watching upstream and would wait to see if they really do > the release and keep up with the promise. We can still last-rite next > quarter, not?
I sincerely doubt eudev will be well maintained by anyone, and will probably be poorly maintained in Gentoo. It's a maintenance burden we don't need any longer now that sys-fs/udev can be installed on all of the platforms we support. I would guess that the majority of active developers in the base-system project want to see it gone. Also, I am planning to replace the poorly maintained "hwids" package with the "hwdata" package maintained by a Red Hat employee. Part of this plan involved installing the hwdb data that is shipped with udev/systemd. This plan would be blocked if eudev remained in Gentoo.
