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On 08/06/2012 09:57 AM, Richard Yao wrote: |
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> The udev situation is a mess. Directory locations are being changed and |
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> there is no way for portage to fix things on people's systems. Most |
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> recently, /lib/udev moved to /usr/lib/udev, against the advice of the |
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> systemd developers. Now whenever a user's system is upgraded to the |
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> newer udev, everything that installs files into that location breaks and |
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> the cause is far from obvious. |
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> Lets keep udev stuff in the original directories until portage is |
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> capable of rebuilding packages that depend on certain system directory |
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> locations being constant. I would like the council to vote on this matter. |
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Just to be clear, here is what Kay Sievers had to say in #dracut on |
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freenode: |
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17:04 < kay> aidecoe: it's not upstream, we still fully support udev in |
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/, and would _never_ recommend putting udev in /usr if /lib, /bin, ... |
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are not symliks to /usr |
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