On 02/08/2016 04:08 AM, Patrick Lauer 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