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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:36:22
Message-Id: 4FFEE090.604@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass by "Michał Górny"
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4 On 12/07/12 10:20 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:43:57 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius
6 > <axs@g.o> wrote:
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10 >> On 12/07/12 01:01 AM, Ben de Groot wrote:
11 >>> On 12 July 2012 07:42, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
12 >>> wrote:
13 >>>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:57:42PM +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò
14 >>>> wrote:
15 >>>>> Il 11/07/2012 21:11, William Hubbs ha scritto:
16 >>>>>> I am about to release udev-186-r1, which will move
17 >>>>>> everything currently in /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev.
18 >>>>>
19 >>>>> Unless you're going to establish a symlink, please keep it
20 >>>>> under p.mask until everything is using some common code —
21 >>>>> otherwise things _will_ break.
22 >>>>
23 >>>> Since multiple packages put things in /lib/udev, I'm not sure
24 >>>> it is possible to establish a symlink from /lib/udev to
25 >>>> /usr/lib/udev if that's what you mean; I'll look into it
26 >>>> though.
27 >>>
28 >>> Couldn't you, on udev upgrade, move everything in /lib/udev to
29 >>> /usr/lib/udev, and then make the symlink? Seems fairly simple
30 >>> to me, but maybe I'm overlooking something?
31 >>>
32 >>
33 >> A symlink isn't a good idea as, iirc, the new udev still -reads-
34 >> from both /usr/lib/udev and /lib/udev ..
35 >
36 > Does it? I wasn't able to reproduce and wanted to start convincing
37 > Kay to let it do that...
38 >
39 >
40
41 ..i was going by your statement, i guess i misread you (thought you
42 said that it did, not that it should).. Sorry!
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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>