C++ free systems cannot compile udev because it's hard dependent on gperf which forces installation of a C++ compiler.
gperf is a build time dependency (not runtime), much like gcc which requires C++ these days too. Also, we optimize for runtime dependencies, not build time dependncies. Closing.
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