On gentoo linux, you can install udev without systemd through systemd-utils.
Someone other than I will have to maintain eudev, or replace it with udev. On Monday, June 29th, 2026 at 2:12 PM, Anderson Torres <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 6:28 AM mr.doojin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Replacing eudev with udev is far easier than developing new software. > > > > Someone can come up with an alternative to udev later. > > Well, the alternative is out there already - namely, eudev :) > > > > > On Monday, June 29th, 2026 at 1:10 AM, Anderson Torres > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 10:41 PM mr.doojin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > eudev hasn't been updated for a long time. > > > > > > > > Gentoo linux replaced eudev with udev in systemd-utils. > > If I remember well, they came back to udev because udev now supports musl. > > > > > > > > > Is it time for guix to replace eudev with udev as well? > > > > > > > > eudev will not last long. > > My personal concern is about the dependency on systemd - not as a > systemd-hater, > but because it would make things like elogind and gnome-session-shepherd moot. > > > > > > > Given what I learned by reading [Stack > > > Exchange](https://archive.ph/wip/FJiM8) and > > > [https://github.com/museoa/mdev-like-a-boss](mdev like a boss), I > > > believe we ourselves > > > can keep a copy of eudev, or even better, a Scheme-based udev replacement. > > > After all Guix created > > > [elogind](https://github.com/elogind/elogind) and we somehow achieved > > > [gnome without systemd](https://piaille.fr/@baleine/114910397837172799) > > > just to run > > > gnome on a systemd-less distro. > > > > > > But I am too megalomaniac... > > > > > > > > > > >
