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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>, flameeyes@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 05:27:47
Message-Id: 4FFE601F.505@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass by Ben de Groot
1 On 07/11/2012 10:01 PM, Ben de Groot wrote:
2 > On 12 July 2012 07:42, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3 >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:57:42PM +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
4 >>> Il 11/07/2012 21:11, William Hubbs ha scritto:
5 >>>> I am about to release udev-186-r1, which will move everything currently
6 >>>> in /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev.
7 >>>
8 >>> Unless you're going to establish a symlink, please keep it under p.mask
9 >>> until everything is using some common code — otherwise things _will_ break.
10 >>
11 >> Since multiple packages put things in /lib/udev, I'm not sure it is
12 >> possible to establish a symlink from /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev if
13 >> that's what you mean; I'll look into it though.
14 >
15 > Couldn't you, on udev upgrade, move everything in /lib/udev to
16 > /usr/lib/udev, and then make the symlink? Seems fairly simple
17 > to me, but maybe I'm overlooking something?
18 >
19
20 It seems like that would work well. :)
21 --
22 Thanks,
23 Zac