Bug 736418 – rework virtual/libudev and virtual/udev so that the non-systemd default udev provider is sys-fs/udev

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Council

[Description William Hubbs 2020-08-08 18:13:20 UTC]

All,

I would like to request that we switch the non-systemd default udev
provider in virtual/libudev and virtual/udev to sys-fs/udev.

I am not asking that we lastrites eudev; I just think it is better over
all for us to use udev as the default.

Let me know what procedures I should follow. Do we need ml discussion?
If so, which ml should I post to?

Thanks,

William

[Comment 1 William Hubbs 2020-08-08 18:58:52 UTC]

I went ahead and opened a discussion on -dev for this:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/8dbfbc64bcc6a8ac67b832dab1eaf5a2

[Comment 2 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) 2020-08-09 19:26:57 UTC]

I personally think that council@ does not have to be involved into the decision if there is no strong opposition. You could send an RFC patch to change a default and work on specific complains.

If all the maintainers of virtual/ packages agree on the plan I don't see a reason not to let them collectively do it.

[Comment 3 William Hubbs 2020-08-31 18:36:13 UTC]

I saw a conversation in IRC a few days ago with @blueness where the topic of
patching sys-fs/udev so that it will work on non-glibc systems came up.
If that happens, sys-fs/eudev will become irrelivent.

[Comment 4 William Hubbs 2020-09-13 18:05:50 UTC]

I haven't heard any more from blueness, but I'm willing to work with him
without council involvement, so feel free to close this.