Re: eudev deprecation

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net> skribis:

> it looks like eudev, which we heavily rely on, is dead upstream:
> https://github.com/gentoo/eudev/issues/199
>
> Looking at Gentoo’s ebuilds it should be possible to “extract”
> and build udev from systemd’s sources.

Good.  That’s essentially what eudev is.

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:

> Further update:
>
>> ADOPTION NOTICE (2021-09-14)
>> Currently eudev is in the process of being adopted by a newly
>> formed project by Alpine, Devuan and Gentoo contributors [...]
>
> -- https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev
>
> We'll see?  Talk and Git repos are cheap; actually putting in this
> work is not.

Interesting.

Julien mentioned on IRC that Linux From Scratch is also considering
switching.  Julien, what’s the takeaway from the LFS discussions so far?

Thanks,
Ludo’.