> Jack wrote: > > On 2021.10.05 15:32, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> I have "eudev" installed but I think it will be obsolete as of > >> Jan.1/22 according to news: 2021-08-24-eudev-retirement > >> > >> Does converting from: sys-fs/eudev > >> to: sys-fs/udev > >> > >> is as simple as: emerge -C sys-fs/eudev emerge sys-fs/udev > > Have you read the news item? It's not quite that literal about what > > to do, but does imply that should work. However, on 15 Sep there was > > a post on the gentoo-dev list with a link to > > https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev (see README.md) which says that > > there is a new team taking up maintenance of eudev, so it is not > > abandoned, and so it is not clear whether eudev will actually be > > dropped or not. > > > > > > > When I switched from udev to eudev, it was as simple as uninstalling udev and > installing eudev. I'd think as you do the reverse would work now as well but > as you point out, it may not. I'd recommend going to a console to do this > and logging out of any GUIs as well. Of course restarting udev afterwards as > well. > > I also saw the post about new maintainers. I'm hopeful that it will keep > being maintained even tho it can be a headache for devs at times. Thing is, > I've read a lot of distros use eudev and avoid the systemd version as much as > possible, even tho eudev still has the same code from my understanding. > Still, I'd rather stick with what works for me. > > Maybe we will know pretty soon what the status of this will be. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
I was also glad to hear about the new maintainers. The day after I heard the project had served its purpose and was being abandoned I went to update one of my few systems with udev instead of eudev and the build crashed and it took me a couple hours to trick it into compiling correctly. I was a little worried that might end up being prophetic. Whatever the exact differences are, eudev still seems to build a little more reliably. Maybe it's just that the project does a better job of informing people about changes to the build requirements... LMP
