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On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 01:50:25PM -0500, Olivier Crête wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 10:41 +0200, Eray Aslan wrote: |
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> > RedHat made some bad design decisions on RPM (.rpmnew files anyone?) and |
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> > udev. Udev was probably salvagable before systemd but noone has the |
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> > motivation or the man-power to manage the huge delta that would result |
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> > now. It would probably amount to forking udev. So people are following |
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> > along even if they are unhappy. |
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> This is completely unrelated to RPMs. |
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The same packages are moving towards a system where config files reside |
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under /usr/lib with users overriding the defaults in /etc |
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(/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/ and /etc/udev/rules.d). I doubt this would have |
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come about if RPM had a sensible way of dealing with config files -if |
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they had etc-update/dispatch-conf for example. |
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Eray Aslan <eras@g.o> |
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