Hello Daniel!
I don't feel strongly enough to make an objection to your commit, but I think pciutils is doing the right thing,
The question is not if some software is doing the right thing or not but if our packages behave like they should for our users.
and despite me and Mike putting a hours into getting a decent HAL patch together the response I got was that as upstream they are simply "not interested" (no technical or logical objections provided), so I don't feel you should be putting workarounds in pciutils just to make HAL happy.
Neither is the question if any of us are happy but if our *users* are happy when their installation process breaks because of "that HAL bug". We don't make HAL, its upstream or anyone but our users happy. Our obligation is primarily to them.
I am attaching a HAL ebuild patch which is the approach
... that still potentially allows things to break because of animosities among ourselves.
We have a good solution, namely robbat2's, which will make sure things don't break for our users. IMO, that's the way to go because the other approaches make us look bad and are unworthy of a distribution that wants to be taken seriously.
-- Best regards, Wulf
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