On 9/17/23, Arsen Arsenović <ar...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Alexe Stefan <stefanalex...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Yet another example of choice being restricted by gentoo. >> However, there at least is a better reason for not keeping libressl in >> ::Gentoo, that reason being qt. > > ... and the swathes of other packages that are not compatible with it... > especially since openssl:3 exists. Please face reality. > >> With eudev, there is even less reason to remove it from ::gentoo. >> The only maintenance burden with eudev is a couple of commits here and >> there, mostly in virtuals. > > There's at least two reasons to remove it (it's unmaintained, out of > date, and incompatible), and at most zero to keep it. > > Fix upstream and the reasons for removal will be gone, and the (illusion > of) choice will be there again. Note that I refuse to accept the idea > that this is choice. The code is the same. > > Have a lovely night. > -- > Arsen Arsenović >
Upstream, it's maintained. Downstream, 2 people volunteered. So it is maintained. The incompatibilities are for some desktop specific situations, and there is a pr upstream(hacky, but work in progress). For servers, or minimal desktops(which is what I expect gentoo is mostly used for), eudev is fine.
