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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:45:43
Message-Id: 51559AA4.3030704@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt by Rich Freeman
1 On 29/03/13 15:30, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Andreas K. Huettel
3 > <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
4 >> Not really. Every time I modified anything in there, it just took a few udev
5 >> versions and suddenly I was flooded with deprecation warnings a la "things
6 >> work different now, find out on your own how to fix it..."
7 >
8 > Not to mention at least in the past it has tended to accumulate
9 > orphans. I was getting tons of warnings on boot-up and discovered
10 > that config protection left a ton of files in there from
11 > who-knows-when. Granted, this is on a system that has been running
12 > Gentoo for about a decade now (every part in it has changed several
13 > times, but the OS has steadily migrated along).
14 >
15 > Now I'm down to 5 files in there, and only one of them is my
16 > local.rules file. If udev is going to stick stuff in /etc then it
17 > really needs to have better communication when this stuff needs to be
18 > modified/cleaned/etc, and what users are and aren't supposed to touch.
19 >
20 > Rich
21 >
22
23 What do you have there? We cover bunch of those in pkg_postinst of udev
24 already.

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