[gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

[Patrick Lauer]

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 :)