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Author: Olav Selseng Vestreim
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] eudev or vdev?
On Tuesday 5. December 2017 09.02.15 KatolaZ wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 01:50:32PM +0800, Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > could someone enlighten me about differences in eudev and vdev packages?
> > I don't know which one to choose :)
>
> eudev is basically udev, forked by Gentoo from the systemd source tree
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eudev
>
> vdev is a separate device manager, written by Jude Nelson:
>
> https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev
>
> eudev is actively maintained by the Gentoo folks. vdev seems to not
> have been given much love lately, but apparently it works fine in many
> Devuan installations.
>
> It is not unreasonable to assume that eudev might be the default
> device manager in ascii, thanks to the work of parazyd, Svante, and
> some others.
>
> My2Cents
>
> KatolaZ




What about Mdev? I understand it has its limitations in DE environments, but
could that one be developed into a viable solution?

Cheers,
Olav