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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: axs@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:22:40
Message-Id: 20120712162058.6fe67022@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:43:57 -0400
2 Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
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7 > On 12/07/12 01:01 AM, Ben de Groot wrote:
8 > > On 12 July 2012 07:42, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
9 > >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:57:42PM +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò
10 > >> wrote:
11 > >>> Il 11/07/2012 21:11, William Hubbs ha scritto:
12 > >>>> I am about to release udev-186-r1, which will move everything
13 > >>>> currently in /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev.
14 > >>>
15 > >>> Unless you're going to establish a symlink, please keep it
16 > >>> under p.mask until everything is using some common code —
17 > >>> otherwise things _will_ break.
18 > >>
19 > >> Since multiple packages put things in /lib/udev, I'm not sure it
20 > >> is possible to establish a symlink from /lib/udev to
21 > >> /usr/lib/udev if that's what you mean; I'll look into it though.
22 > >
23 > > Couldn't you, on udev upgrade, move everything in /lib/udev to
24 > > /usr/lib/udev, and then make the symlink? Seems fairly simple to
25 > > me, but maybe I'm overlooking something?
26 > >
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28 > A symlink isn't a good idea as, iirc, the new udev still -reads- from
29 > both /usr/lib/udev and /lib/udev ..
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31 Does it? I wasn't able to reproduce and wanted to start convincing Kay
32 to let it do that...
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36 Best regards,
37 Michał Górny

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