> Some Gentoo developers, who happen to hate systemd
I know, but even so Lennart isn't a lead developer of any project. Systemd
aims to be "the simple building blocks" for all the GNU/Linux distributions
as they want to "unify many of the needless differences between the
distributions", it is clear that systemd aims to be a very important piece of
the system core components. So I would expect more professionalism and
seriousness coming from someone like him, and not that kind of statement that
you would expect from any random guy in the Internet defending systemd. And
on top of that, Lennart is being paid while the vast majority (if not all) of
the Gentoo developers are volunteers. So in summary: That kind of attitude is
disappointing.
> forked udev in 2012, right after udev was merged into systemd. The fork is
called eudev. Up to last year, systemd could still use the old-style udev.
Just for the people that didn't knew of eudev: The reason why Gentoo fork
udev into eudev was to keep udev separate of systemd and therefore software
that depend on udev separate of systemd. As udev is one of the components
that can't be "Reimplementable Independently"[1].
> With the message you quote, Lennart Poettering announces that this support
will stop. To follow their plans[,] the Gentoo developers either had to
"prepare another kdbus userspace" or ship eudev. They chose the second
option, by the way.
Uhmm, or ship eudev? What do you mean by "ship eudev"?
[1]
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfacePortabilityAndStabilityChart/
