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Why is udev not used in this case?

• charcircuit 5y ago
  Because this is the fallback when you compile without udev support
  • AshamedCaptain 5y ago
    I can guess that, but I was wondering why ... Is there a distro without udev? The steam/whatever sandbox does not support udev?
    • Sjonny 5y ago
      It's not the system that is not supporting udev, it's the choice of the game developers how they compiled SDL .. without dependencies, and so without udev.
      • mschuster91 5y ago
        That's standard for game devs in the Linux world. The less dependencies you have to rely on the distribution for, the better - Windows stuff is either already present or shared OS-wide with binary backwards compatibility (=DirectX), so you can get away with shipping stuff that has a chance to run even 25 years in the future without major modification.
• bdowling 5y ago
  Probably because a commercial developer is not going to want to link a LGPL library with their program. [0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/libudev/libudev.h https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/libudev/lib...