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On Mon, 2020-08-10 at 13:52 +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: |
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> On 2020-08-09 23:14, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > Here is something else to consider. |
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> > |
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> > Blueness and any of the other eudev maintainers are doing good work |
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> > for alternative c library support such as musl. In fact, the musl |
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> > profiles hard mask sys-fs/udev, so they are covered no matter what |
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> > happens as a result of this thread. |
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> > |
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> > Eudev is supposed to be udev without systemd along with alternative c |
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> > library support, but it appears to be behind what eudev offers. |
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> > |
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> > The following commit appears to be the last time eudev synced with udev: |
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> > https://github.com/gentoo/eudev/commit/2ab887ec67afd15eb9b0849467f1f9c036a2b6c8 |
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> > |
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> > There are roughly 100 commits in the udev master branch since the date of this |
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> > sync: |
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> > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commits/master/src/udev |
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> > |
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> > There are several new commits in libudev and udev rules since then as |
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> > well: |
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> > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commits/master/src/libudev |
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> > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commits/master/rules.d |
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> > I would like to publically thank Leio for providing me with the |
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> > information above. |
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> > I asked the council for guidance and was told that they don't need to be |
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> > involved, so I guess the best thing to do now is call for testers. |
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> > It would be helpful if people migrate their systems manually from eudev to udev |
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> > and report issues. |
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> > I'm not a valid test case because I have always run udev. |
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> This is not answering my questions. |
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> If anything from above would be valid (like others have asked you for |
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> bugs and already mentioned that commit count alone don't say anything) |
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> we wouldn't just be talking about switching default for *new* |
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> installations. Instead we would need to talk about ditching eudev in |
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> general... |
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> So for me it still looks like change for change's sake without a real |
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> reason. |
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...or a revert of a change made for change's sake. In the end, it all |
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boils down to preference of a single person, and potential of another |
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person reverting it. |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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