Gentoo Developers Fork udev

In October, Linus Torvalds expressed concerns that udev was making "...changes that were known to be problematic, and are pure and utter stupidity." Several Gentoo developers were also concerned about the removal of features and uncooperative nature of udev maintained by the systemd developers, so they've announced a fork: "After speaking with several other Gentoo developers that share Linus' concerns, I have decided to form a team to fork udev. Our plan is to eliminate the separate /usr requirement from our fork, among other things. We will announce the project later this week." The project name (for now) is udev-ng, and you can grab the code from Github. Update: 11/16 21:29 GMT by U L : One of the developers commented that this isn't yet an official Gentoo project (but hopefully it will be!). There's also an informative flamewar about the fork on debian-devel.

Comments

Re:Thumbs down on the name

[Anonymous Coward]

In other news, in response to the recent creation of the udev-ng fork, Lennart Poettering has announced that udev maintainers are renaming their project to uPulseDevKitd in order to better reflect its capabilities.

Re:Sponsored by Gentoo - not a good thing

[Anonymous Coward]

USE=" -redhat-crap everythingcoolnfast"

Re:We have not made an official announcement yet

[Anonymous Coward]

how's pulse audio working out for you?

Sorry. Could you repeat that? I can't hear a damn thing!