On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 06:12:05 -0500 Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> On 2/8/16 4:25 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:08:22 +0100
> > Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> 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 :)
> >>
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > I switched to eudev a few years ago and glad I did.
> > 
> > The non-systemd profiles should have eudev as default.
> > 
> 
> just pile the pressure on :)

+1
I use eudev on all setups (both home and work) for years now.
The experience is yummy.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko