why is systemd-udevd on my system?

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peterius · Post by **peterius** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 12:35 am

systemd is cancer. I don't want anything to do with it and I specifically put USE="-systemd" in my /etc/portage/make.conf

ct85711 · Post by **ct85711** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 12:52 am

I would hazard a guess you are wanting to use Gnome, which depends on systemd by default...

2 ways that you can easily tell what is pulling in a package, is that you can place the package in question in your package.mask, and see what package is complaining that you need systemd. Otherwise you can use equery depends (from gentoolkit) to id what depends on the package...

The Doctor · Post by **The Doctor** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 12:55 am

Look at emerge -pv udev and emerge -pv systemd. I strongly suspect you will find that is "vanilla" udev. Pottering assimilated udev into systemd after all. Resistance is futile.

Unless you swich to eudev, mdev, or static-dev.

Ant P. · Post by **Ant P.** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 1:31 am

peterius wrote:systemd is cancer. I don't want anything to do with it

Then RTFM. First paragraph. First link. You were given exactly this URL in the elog messages where you installed udev.

Ignorance of your system is not an excuse, we are not Ubuntu here

peterius · Post by **peterius** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 7:09 pm

Yeah, I'm not using gnome... so udev has been infected? I do sort of remember something about that a while ago but I couldn't believe it. Thought they would have more sense. Okay. eudev it is, thanks.

Tony0945 · Post by **Tony0945** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 7:50 pm

Ant P. wrote: Then RTFM. First paragraph. First link. You were given exactly this URL in the elog messages where you installed udev.

Ignorance of your system is not an excuse, we are not Ubuntu here

We certainly aren't. When noobs ask questions on an Ubuntu forum they don't get snotty answers. You didn't have to answer at all, except to put somebody down for not understanding.

Post by Hu » Thu Sep 14, 2017 12:39 am

As of quite a while ago, upstream rebranded udev as systemd-udevd in various log messages. Its source is bundled into the systemd source distribution, but it can still be built as a separate program and used without installing systemd. I am not aware of any commitment by upstream to retain that independent status, nor any announced plans not to retain it.

The Doctor · Post by **The Doctor** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 3:17 am

Lennart Poettering wrote:Yes, udev on non-systemd systems is in our eyes a dead end, in case you haven't noticed it yet. I am looking forward to the day when we can drop that support entirely

The lead developer has, at any rate, made his opinion on the matter known. I've made it a point to use a forked version of udev since it was assimilated because of this.

I doubt we will see any actual sabotage to udev in the near future. Systemd has taken over every other major distro so it isn't worth the effort and we planned for it.

Sun Tzu wrote:Every battle is won or lost before it's ever fought

Post by Hu » Thu Sep 14, 2017 3:30 am

I was not aware he was so blatant about it, but I can't say I'm surprised.

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