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From: "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:25:51
Message-Id: 4FFE3588.1060101@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass by William Hubbs
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4 On 07/11/2012 07:48 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
5 > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 04:59:11PM -0400, Alexis Ballier wrote:
6 >> How do you plan to handle the following:
7 >> - foo installs an udev rule
8 >> - install foo with old udev
9 >> - upgrade udev
10 >>
11 >> are rules installed by foo used by new udev ?
12 >
13 > No, they wouldn't be; that is a good reason to question the value of the
14 > eclass itself. Maybe the correct way to do this is to forget the eclass
15 > and just file bugs against packages that break having them move their
16 > rules to the new location and set a dependency on the newer udev.
17 Perhaps a new ebuild helper would be best here? It seems no one knows
18 where to install udev rules in the first place (I know I didn't till a
19 recent version of portage yelled at me with a QA warning).
20
21 How about dorule/newrule?
22
23 - -Zero
24 >
25 > This would have to be a rev bump for the broken packages.
26 >
27 > William
28 >
29 >>
30 >> A.
31 >>
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