On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 08:49:20AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 8:16 AM Thomas Deutschmann <whi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > On 2020-08-10 14:07, Michał Górny wrote: > > > ...or a revert of a change made for change's sake. > > > > That's a bold statement for an unambiguous 7-0 decision as seen in > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/575718. > > As one who voted yes, my rationale is already in the bug comments, and > I voted yes because it seemed to be the preference of most non-systemd > users on the mailing list. I can't say whether this is still the case > but I'm guessing it is. I don't think it is really a well-founded > preference but I don't really see a point in fighting it when people > can use whichever they prefer. My rationale for voting yes was based on the idea that it would be easy to switch back, and even if we did, it would be easy for someone to switch to eudev if they want it.
> If the eudev bus factor drops from 1 to 0 and people get tired of > dealing with it, I suspect switching back will become more popular. > If that never happens that is fine too. If people have unusual > configs not addressed by eudev, or just plain old good taste, they > can always use udev or systemd. > > If eudev were causing serious problems or holding back other projects > for some reason I'd feel differently. Otherwise I tend to agree with > the sense that if you're going to make a change there should be a > reason. The reason for the previous change was that a strong majority > had a strong preference. Based on the tone of discussion I'm not sure > that has changed - there isn't as much vehemence in the discussion, > but I suspect that is mostly because most don't think this is likely > to happen so they don't bother to reply. There's another interpretation. Most users or developers don't care. No one has offered to switch from eudev to udev and look at regressions. People are asking me to show what features exist in udev that aren't in eudev. I stuck with udev. I don't use eudev so I don't know. As I have said earlier on the thread, we should look at udev and seee if it breaks things in relation to eudev. That would take some folks migrating their systems and reporting issues. William
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