The eudev project launches

Posted Dec 17, 2012 10:30 UTC (Mon) by ovitters (guest, #27950)
In reply to: The eudev project launches by Ford_Prefect
Parent article: The eudev project launches

As already said, you're trying to have it both ways. Get recognition by using "Gentoo", but at the same time avoiding criticism. I'd say "man up".

Anway, the entire announcement to me is funny. The "Gentoo", but not really, then all the comments about udev. Things which have been pointed out and explained before. Yet still repeated in this announcement.

eudev: the project which is confused and confusing :P

Seems not much was learned after Greg criticized this.

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The eudev project launches

Posted Dec 17, 2012 23:41 UTC (Mon) by rich0 (guest, #55509) [Link]

That's just how Gentoo operates - Gentoo is about choice. That often means that we put effort into supporting choices that many users will not make, such as allowing users to use systemd as their init system, or creating a udev fork.

Is eudev officially part of Gentoo? Yes. Does that mean it will ever be the default replacement for udev? Not necessarily.

Eudev does have the official support of Gentoo, but that really amounts to little more than some hosting. They could of course apply for financial support like any other Gentoo project, but such requests are rare, and honestly I'm not sure what it would be needed for here.

Gentoo is a volunteer organization. If somebody wants to work on something, they can. If others think that what they're working on is dumb, they can work on something else. As long as nobody is breaking the law we're fine with that.