> >> I'm an outsider to Gentoo development (just a heavy user for over a > >> decade both personally and professionally) so I might have missed > >> something. I just find it puzzling. > > > > I'm not puzzled by what is going on, or by your email, because it > > happens basically anytime a high-profile package is treecleaned. Yes, > > Gentoo is about choice, but somebody has to actually do work to make > > the choices viable. There are always more people interested in using > > software than maintaining it. The frustration is completely > > understandable, but also kinda unavoidable. > > It starts to bother me that so many people straight away assume that when > someone questions things it's because they are a frustrated user <snip>
The eudev experiment has failed. * It was false labeling from the start.[*] * It's barely alive and not keeping up with udev upstream. * It's effectively unmaintained in Gentoo. * You don't gain anything from using it instead of udev. (Nobody does.) So why should anyone put up the effort to package it? [*] Take something out of the systemd tarball, reapply every commit, make tiny changes so it looks different, sell it to the anti-systemd crowd. Sadly no profit, since open source... -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
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