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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:04:01
Message-Id: 201110131503.15648.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 On Thursday 13 October 2011 14:55:45 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
2 > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Thursday 13 October 2011 12:30:06 Arun Raghavan wrote:
4 > >> While I've seen a lot of whining about this whole issue, I certainly
5 > >> haven't been seen any effort to actually solve the problem within the
6 > >> existing framework. For example, if someone cares enough, why not
7 > >> write a wrapper script to track down the programs and libraries at
8 > >> runtime that actually do use /usr so it's easier to say "these
9 > >> packages install rules that need / and /usr on the same partition".
10 > >
11 > > (1) udev has provided a workaround of sorts for this already: udevadm
12 > > trigger --type=failed. this is the udev-postmount init.d script. (2)
13 > > it's fairly trivial to locate most (all?) the failing rules with a
14 > > single grep: grep /usr -R /lib/udev/rules.d/.
15 >
16 > If this comment is true (haven't looked at the code):
17 >
18 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375263#c23
19 >
20 > that trigger has been removed from udev.
21
22 ... which is what spurred this entire debate in the first place
23 -mike

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