Packages with the udev use flag

Global definition: Enable virtual/udev integration (device discovery, power and storage device support, etc).

app-backup / rear : Relax-and-Recover is a setup-and-forget bare metal disaster recovery solution

  • Have ReaR start backup when attaching your USB drive.

app-cdr / xfburn : GTK+ based CD and DVD burning application

app-crypt / zulucrypt : Front end to cryptsetup

  • Whether udev will be consulted when deciding if a volume is system or not

app-emulation / libvirt : C toolkit to manipulate virtual machines

app-emulation / qemu : QEMU + Kernel-based Virtual Machine userland tools

app-emulation / virtualbox : Family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise and home use

  • Controls installation of special USB udev rules.

app-emulation / wine-proton : Valve Software's fork of Wine

app-emulation / wine-staging : Free implementation of Windows(tm) on Unix, with Wine-Staging patchset

app-emulation / wine-vanilla : Free implementation of Windows(tm) on Unix, without external patchsets

app-metrics / collectd : Collects system statistics and provides mechanisms to store the values

  • Enable optional udev usage in disk plugin; Required for smart plugin

dev-games / godot : Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine with a feature-rich editor

dev-libs / cyberjack : REINER SCT cyberJack USB chipcard reader user space driver

dev-libs / libcec : Library for communicating with the Pulse-Eight USB HDMI-CEC Adaptor

  • Enable detection of USB-CEC port by udev

dev-libs / libmanette : Simple GObject game controller library

dev-libs / libusb : Userspace access to USB devices

dev-libs / light : A program to control backlights (and other hardware lights)

dev-qt / qtbase : Cross-platform application development framework

dev-qt / qtgui : The GUI module and platform plugins for the Qt5 framework

dev-util / android-tools : Android platform tools (adb, fastboot, and mkbootimg)

games-emulation / hatari : Atari ST emulator

games-emulation / higan : Multi-system emulator focused on accuracy, preservation, and configurability

games-simulation / flightgear : Open Source Flight Simulator

  • Enable event-based Input devices through virtual/udev

games-util / sc-controller : User-mode driver and GTK-based GUI for Steam Controllers and others

gnome-base / gnome-desktop : Library with common API for various GNOME modules

gnome-base / gvfs : Virtual filesystem implementation for GIO

  • Enable udev base replacement code for cdda feature

gnome-extra / gnome-software : Gnome install & update software

gui-apps / waybar : Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors

gui-libs / wlroots : Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a Wayland compositor

lxqt-base / lxqt-session : LXQt Session Manager

media-gfx / gimp : GNU Image Manipulation Program

media-gfx / iscan-data : Image Scan! for Linux data files

media-gfx / shotwell : Open source photo manager for GNOME

media-libs / clutter-gst : GStreamer integration library for Clutter

media-libs / libcanberra : Portable sound event library

media-libs / libgpod : Shared library to access the contents of an iPod

media-libs / libsdl2 : Simple Direct Media Layer

media-plugins / gst-plugins-v4l2 : plugin for gstreamer

media-radio / direwolf : Decoded Information from Radio Emissions for Windows Or Linux Fans

media-sound / pragha : A lightweight music player (for Xfce)

media-sound / pulseaudio-daemon : Daemon component of PulseAudio (networked sound server)

media-sound / quodlibet : audio library tagger, manager, and player for GTK+

media-sound / rhythmbox : Music management and playback software for GNOME

media-tv / kodi : A free and open source media-player and entertainment hub

  • Use sys-fs/udev rules to handle devices' permissions and hotplug support. Unless you know what you're doing do not disable this flag on Linux kernels. This is provided as an option for completeness.

media-tv / v4l-utils : Separate utilities ebuild from upstream v4l-utils package

media-video / dvdstyler : A cross-platform free DVD authoring application

media-video / vlc : Media player and framework with support for most multimedia files and streaming

net-libs / libhackrf : library for communicating with HackRF SDR platform

net-misc / bfgminer : Modular Bitcoin ASIC/FPGA/GPU/CPU miner in C

net-misc / casync : Content-Addressable Data Synchronization Tool

net-misc / cgminer : Bitcoin CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC miner in C

net-misc / dhcpcd : A fully featured, yet light weight RFC2131 compliant DHCP client

net-misc / modemmanager : Modem and mobile broadband management libraries

net-misc / ofono : Open Source mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) daemon

net-wireless / airspy : Usemode driver and associated tools for airspy

net-wireless / bluez : Bluetooth Tools and System Daemons for Linux

net-wireless / kismet : IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN sniffer

net-wireless / osmo-fl2k : turns FL2000-based USB 3.0 to VGA adapters into low cost DACs

net-wireless / ubertooth : open source wireless development platform suitable for Bluetooth experimentation

sci-geosciences / gpsd : GPS daemon and library for USB/serial GPS devices and GPS/mapping clients

sci-libs / libsigrok : Basic hardware drivers for logic analyzers and input/output file format support

sys-apps / hwloc : Displays the hardware topology in convenient formats

sys-apps / pciutils : Various utilities dealing with the PCI bus

sys-apps / pcsc-lite : PC/SC Architecture smartcard middleware library

  • Use virtual/libudev rules to handle devices' permissions and hotplug support. Unless you know what you're doing do not disable this flag on Linux kernels. This is provided as an option for completeness.

sys-apps / razercfg : Utility for advanced configuration of Razer mice

sys-apps / systemd-utils : Utilities split out from systemd for OpenRC users

  • Enable systemd-udev (userspace device manager)

sys-apps / util-linux : Various useful Linux utilities

sys-boot / plymouth : Graphical boot animation (splash) and logger

sys-cluster / drbd-utils : mirror/replicate block-devices across a network-connection

sys-fs / btrfs-progs : Btrfs filesystem utilities

sys-fs / cryptmount : A utility for management and user-mode mounting of encrypted filesystems

sys-fs / cryptsetup : Tool to setup encrypted devices with dm-crypt

sys-fs / lvm2 : User-land utilities for LVM2 (device-mapper) software

sys-fs / mdadm : Tool for running RAID systems - replacement for the raidtools

virtual / libusb : Virtual for libusb

x11-base / xorg-server : X.Org X servers

x11-drivers / xf86-video-amdgpu : Accelerated Open Source driver for AMDGPU cards

x11-drivers / xf86-video-ati : ATI video driver

x11-drivers / xf86-video-intel : X.Org driver for Intel cards

x11-misc / autorandr : Automatically select a display configuration based on connected devices

x11-misc / py3status : py3status is an extensible i3status wrapper written in python

  • Install extra requirement dev-python/pyudev to enable udev events monitoring on modules.

x11-wm / muffin : Compositing window manager forked from Mutter for use with Cinnamon

x11-wm / mutter : GNOME compositing window manager based on Clutter

x11-wm / xpra : X Persistent Remote Apps (xpra) and Partitioning WM (parti) based on wimpiggy