This Portage overlay provides the sys-fs/eudev package, a drop-in, standalone replacement for the udev component of systemd (including the libudev library) which was previously removed from Gentoo in favor of the systemd version.

In addition to eudev itself, this overlay updates the virtual/udev package to allow eudev as an alternative udev implementation, and adds the USE flag eudev to force the use of eudev and ensure that updates to Gentoo's own virtual/udev package do not cause eudev to be removed.

Note that while eudev is intended as a drop-in replacement, other packages may still behave incorrectly in its presence, for example if they use the presence of systemd itself as a proxy for checking libudev support. Please file an issue if you encounter any such problems while using this overlay.

This overlay can be installed with the following command:

eselect repository add eudev git https://github.com/achurch/gentoo-eudev.git

Alternatively, copy eudev.conf into /etc/portage/repos.conf (and change the location field as desired).