Re: eudev deprecation

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Le 28 septembre 2021 08:00:02 GMT-04:00, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :
>Hi,
>
>Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net> skribis:
>
>> it looks like eudev, which we heavily rely on, is dead upstream:
>> https://github.com/gentoo/eudev/issues/199
>>
>> Looking at Gentoo’s ebuilds it should be possible to “extract”
>> and build udev from systemd’s sources.
>
>Good.  That’s essentially what eudev is.
>
>Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:
>
>> Further update:
>>
>>> ADOPTION NOTICE (2021-09-14)
>>> Currently eudev is in the process of being adopted by a newly
>>> formed project by Alpine, Devuan and Gentoo contributors [...]
>>
>> -- https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev
>>
>> We'll see?  Talk and Git repos are cheap; actually putting in this
>> work is not.
>
>Interesting.
>
>Julien mentioned on IRC that Linux From Scratch is also considering
>switching.  Julien, what’s the takeaway from the LFS discussions so far?
>
>Thanks,
>Ludo’.

My understandeng is that LFS will use udev, directly extracted fsom systemd's sources, in its sysvinit version. See https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/4914 for reference.