udevd is dead, long live mdevds or how to break out from IBM trojan-ware – antiX-23-no-udev

Getting close to our 4year birthday here and what more reason to celebrate than cutting one more tie to the IBM’s monolythic bloatware that is shoved down our throats by agents of dependence and control.
Thank to the revamping of Kiss and its new commitment to independence, to offer a way to such independence, we noticed a tragic neglect of reality. We started talking about independence from systemd, and all we thought it was necessary was to substitute pid1 for an alternative. Some pre-existed and worked, some fresher were hardly tried.Then came the substitution to logind by consolekit2.
Then came the realization that not using systemd init, but using dbus and elogind, was the next worst thing to be doing, and while more and more non-systemd distros (on our long list) didn’t use systemd, they used or later adopted elogind (void slackware and our beloved adelie). So beyond pid1 those systems were business as usual. So we focused on the next best alternative, consolekit2 (which is recently receiving fresh attention) or not using it and dbus at all, which is fine for most of us wm users.
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