> >> I'm an outsider to Gentoo development (just a heavy user for over a
> >> decade both personally and professionally) so I might have missed
> >> something. I just find it puzzling.
> >
> > I'm not puzzled by what is going on, or by your email, because it
> > happens basically anytime a high-profile package is treecleaned.  Yes,
> > Gentoo is about choice, but somebody has to actually do work to make
> > the choices viable.  There are always more people interested in using
> > software than maintaining it.  The frustration is completely
> > understandable, but also kinda unavoidable.
> 
> It starts to bother me that so many people straight away assume that when
> someone questions things it's because they are a frustrated user 
<snip>

The eudev experiment has failed.
* It was false labeling from the start.[*]
* It's barely alive and not keeping up with udev upstream.
* It's effectively unmaintained in Gentoo.
* You don't gain anything from using it instead of udev.
  (Nobody does.)

So why should anyone put up the effort to package it?


[*] Take something out of the systemd tarball, reapply every commit, 
make tiny changes so it looks different, sell it to the anti-systemd 
crowd. Sadly no profit, since open source...

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)