As we all know, the Gentoo maintainer for this project and hwids caused this package to become orphaned. However, eudev is still being maintained outside of Gentoo (https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/releases), and the project is not dead with the recent version at 3.2.11.

As someone who switched to Parabola due to their focus on freedom for init-systems – as well as greater control over packages repositories (nonprism etc) – I find it very important to be able to continue using a slimmed-down version of udev and not the bloatfest introduced by systemd.

eudev can be built with a dependency towards “hwdata” instead of the (now-defunct) “hwids” in order to prevent udev from being automatically pulled in.