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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:26:20
Message-Id: 20120712122444.076a584f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass by William Hubbs
1 On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:48:08 -0500
2 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 04:59:11PM -0400, Alexis Ballier wrote:
5 > > How do you plan to handle the following:
6 > > - foo installs an udev rule
7 > > - install foo with old udev
8 > > - upgrade udev
9 > >
10 > > are rules installed by foo used by new udev ?
11 >
12 > No, they wouldn't be; that is a good reason to question the value of
13 > the eclass itself. Maybe the correct way to do this is to forget the
14 > eclass and just file bugs against packages that break having them
15 > move their rules to the new location and set a dependency on the
16 > newer udev.
17 >
18 > This would have to be a rev bump for the broken packages.
19
20 this sounds heavy for only changing the location of a file, but that's
21 the only sane solution i can think of :(
22
23 A.