On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:34:56 -0400
Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:

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> On 12/07/12 10:20 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > 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...
> > 
> > 
> 
> ..i was going by your statement, i guess i misread you (thought you
> said that it did, not that it should)..  Sorry!

I will try to convince upstream to support it that way.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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