I like #Gentoo and I enjoy being a developer and package maintainer. The distro offers incredible flexibility to configure your system in any way you like.
But I really wish that didn't attract complete nutters who want to run Linux with mostly modern software but e.g. don't want udev on their systems.
(Similar situations arise with dbus, rust, etc., to say nothing of systemd)
Fine, you want to run #Gentoo built with clang and link-time optimization; linked with mold; using musl libc, libressl, slibtool; maximum hardened CFLAGS; SELinux; all on an aarch64 system runnning in big-endian mode. But please, just use udev.
@lanodan But why? What's the advantage of using mdev?
@radon: udev in Gentoo is now just `sys-apps/systemd-utils[udev]`, which freaks some people out.
Even before that, it was just built from the systemd tarball...
And eudev was an embarrassment from beginning to end.