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On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 9:15 AM Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> why do you want to drop the package? Since news item, upstream changed.
> There will be a new release soon. Was this just on your list to finish
> or is there another reason?
>
> I am currently watching upstream and would wait to see if they really do
> the release and keep up with the promise. We can still last-rite next
> quarter, not?
I sincerely doubt eudev will be well maintained by anyone, and will
probably be poorly maintained in Gentoo. It's a maintenance burden we
don't need any longer now that sys-fs/udev can be installed on all of
the platforms we support. I would guess that the majority of active
developers in the base-system project want to see it gone.
Also, I am planning to replace the poorly maintained "hwids" package
with the "hwdata" package maintained by a Red Hat employee. Part of
this plan involved installing the hwdb data that is shipped with
udev/systemd. This plan would be blocked if eudev remained in Gentoo.