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On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 01:22:44PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 06:40:07PM +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: |
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> > On 2020-08-08 20:51, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > > What do people think? |
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> > Like others already asked: What's the reason for this? |
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> Like others have said on the thread, the reason for the switch away |
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> from udev in the past was mostly fear driven instead of fact driven. As |
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> already said, if the udev developers were going to make udev unusable |
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> without systemd they would have by now. |
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> > What do you expect from this change? |
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> > Is there a problem when new Gentoo installations will use EUDEV by |
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> > default? Or is there a benefit if new installations would use sys-fs/udev? |
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Here is something else to consider. |
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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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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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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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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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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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Thanks, |
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William |
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