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

[icebike]

Nice doesn't enter into it.
I owe no loyalty to crappy implementations simply because I used them before.

Lots of software wanders off the reservation from time to time and needs to be replaced, or forked back to a point in time where it was working well. If the Dev's won't listen to Linus, what other choices are there?