On 02/08/2016 04:08 AM, Patrick Lauer 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
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