Jack wrote:
On 2021.10.05 15:32, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
I have "eudev" installed but I think it will be obsolete as of
Jan.1/22 according to news: 2021-08-24-eudev-retirement
Does converting from: sys-fs/eudev
to: sys-fs/udev
is as simple as: emerge -C sys-fs/eudev
emerge sys-fs/udev
Have you read the news item? It's not quite that literal about what
to do, but does imply that should work. However, on 15 Sep there was
a post on the gentoo-dev list with a link to https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev (see README.md) which says that
there is a new team taking up maintenance of eudev, so it is not
abandoned, and so it is not clear whether eudev will actually be
dropped or not.
When I switched from udev to eudev, it was as simple as uninstalling
udev and installing eudev. I'd think as you do the reverse would work
now as well but as you point out, it may not. I'd recommend going to a console to do this and logging out of any GUIs as well. Of course
restarting udev afterwards as well.
I also saw the post about new maintainers. I'm hopeful that it will
keep being maintained even tho it can be a headache for devs at times.
Thing is, I've read a lot of distros use eudev and avoid the systemd
version as much as possible, even tho eudev still has the same code from
my understanding. Still, I'd rather stick with what works for me.
Maybe we will know pretty soon what the status of this will be.
Dale
:-) :-)
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