On 2/8/16 4:25 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:08:22 +0100 > Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> 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 > > I switched to eudev a few years ago and glad I did. > > The non-systemd profiles should have eudev as default. >
just pile the pressure on :) -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA
