On 9/13/23, Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 5:23 PM Eddie Chapman <ed...@ehuk.net> wrote: >> Why would you think that by having an alternative in tree it means that >> everyone else is then forced into doing work that they don't want to and >> it will inconvenience everyone? > > Because it's already happened! > > commit 6404b064d63d182da4a8a193533a188cdf832d41 > Author: Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> > Date: Sun Jul 30 14:07:47 2023 -0400 > > virtual/libudev: add eudev and sticky-tags USE flags > > eudev lacks API support for the new libudev functions that > differentiate > between sticky and current tags on device events. > > Add a USE flag so we can depend on the new API from libgudev. > > > commit 319b4ed88674af738bd3fd90e56dc06c88de15db > Author: Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> > Date: Sun Jul 30 14:10:44 2023 -0400 > > dev-libs/libgudev: depend on virtual/libudev[sticky-tags] > > > And as a result we have had at least three bug reports from users > complaining that they cannot update: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/913702 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/913900 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/913954 > >> What if someone came along now and said >> they were willing to "step up" and maintain eudev and they were suitably >> qualified? Is that really going to force everyone else to modify their >> ways? > > It doesn't matter what people say. It matters what they do. And so far > no one has done anything in more than two years to make eudev worth > keeping. > > But the core of the issue for me is -- how is eudev even the slightest > bit better in any way than systemd-utils[udev]? > >
Is it such a burden to make a couple of commits once in a while? How many commits were made in the last year to accommodate eudev? Regarding the bugs, what else did you expect when no news item was given?
