Don't get me wrong -- I too am extremely grateful to the Gentoo devs for maintaining eudev. It's also the obvious choice for highly memory constrained embedded

Don't get me wrong -- I too am extremely grateful to the Gentoo devs for maintaining eudev. It's also the obvious choice for highly memory constrained embedded Linux systems that can't fit systemd. I just think it's absolutely bonkers that it has to be a fork... eudev should really just be udev.