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Re: DeviceKit and /usr



On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:09:40PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> And it is also very unclear to me why this has to be in /lib/udev at
> all.

Because it provides a single point where the desktop hooks into the kernel
hotplug event system, instead of having hal redo all the work already done
by udev.  /That/ much has a sound rationale, even if reading text databases
in does not.

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