Re: udev and /usr
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 01:45:23PM +0200, Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> wrote:
> On Sep 01, Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Wouldn't make it sense then if udev had a recommends or at least suggests for
> > usbutils and pciutils?
> Yes, the next upload (today in experimental maybe) will do this.
>
> > How will usb-id and pci-id behave, if the ids files are not accessible?
> Print an error on stderr and exit with rc=1.
> The more interesting question is which packages care about this
> information and how they will behave when it is missing.
An interesting corollary is how will upgraded systems behave ? A lot of
the currently installed ones have a separate /usr. It would be a shame to
tell users they have to reinstall (or go through hoops to put /usr in /)
Mike
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