On Mon, 2020-08-10 at 21:55 -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> On 8/10/2020 11:22, William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 12:00:44AM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> > > On 8/8/2020 14:51, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > > All,
> > > > 
> > > > I would like to propose that we switch the default udev provider on new
> > > > systems from eudev to udev.
> > > > 
> > > > This is not a lastrites, and it will not affect current systems since
> > > > they have to migrate manually. Also, this change can be overridden at
> > > > the profile level if some profile needs eudev (the last time I checked,
> > > > this applies to non-glibc configurations).
> > > > 
> > > > What do people think?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > 
> > > > William
> > > 
> > > Is eudev broken in some way?  If so, has a bug been filed?  If not, why 
> > > not?
> > > 
> > > If eudev is not broken, then why your proposed fix?
> > 
> > bitrot and bus factor.
> 
> Examples?

I suppose nobody remembers the time (the previous year) where eudev
broke reverse dependencies because of wrong version number, and it took
around 3 months to get a fix (read: changing the version number) into
~arch.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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