I realize that I don't really have any right to complain about this. I don't contribute to either project, and I think that maintainers should feel free to do w

I realize that I don't really have any right to complain about this. I don't contribute to either project, and I think that maintainers should feel free to do whatever they think is best for their projects, including things that help reduce burdensome things that they find annoying. However, as a heavy user of both projects, I see what those decisions have led to in practice, and have opinions about what this might mean for the community in the medium/long term. The reality on the ground today is that you either run systemd+udev, or you run OpenRC/something else + eudev. And having observed other projects that went down the "we forked, but merge regularly to try and keep the forks in sync" rabbit hole (e.g. ffmpeg and libav), this almost always ends badly. The goal may be to keep the two separate projects compatible, but inevitably environment differences, bugs, refactors, etc. cause the two projects to diverge. This sucks for everybody, but it sucks a lot more for people using the less popular fork, and this can eventually kill the fork. I worry about eudev long-term.