On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:43:57 -0400
Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:

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> On 12/07/12 01:01 AM, Ben de Groot wrote:
> > On 12 July 2012 07:42, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:57:42PM +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò
> >> wrote:
> >>> Il 11/07/2012 21:11, William Hubbs ha scritto:
> >>>> I am about to release udev-186-r1, which will move everything
> >>>> currently in /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev.
> >>> 
> >>> Unless you're going to establish a symlink, please keep it
> >>> under p.mask until everything is using some common code —
> >>> otherwise things _will_ break.
> >> 
> >> Since multiple packages put things in /lib/udev, I'm not sure it
> >> is possible to establish a symlink from /lib/udev to
> >> /usr/lib/udev if that's what you mean; I'll look into it though.
> > 
> > Couldn't you, on udev upgrade, move everything in /lib/udev to 
> > /usr/lib/udev, and then make the symlink? Seems fairly simple to
> > me, but maybe I'm overlooking something?
> > 
> 
> A symlink isn't a good idea as, iirc, the new udev still -reads- from
> both /usr/lib/udev and /lib/udev ..

Does it? I wasn't able to reproduce and wanted to start convincing Kay
to let it do that...


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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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