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Re: udev device naming policy concerns



On Apr 03, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> As I've already said, Debian Policy requires the FHS, and quoting from 
> /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/fhs/fhs.txt.gz:
I do not consider this a major argument as modern FHS releases do not
mandate following devices.txt anymore.

> Hence, the flat namespace is already mandated by Debian Policy.  And
> for good reason, as you point out:
> 
> > Too many packages will depend on the location of some device files,
> > as was mentioned previously in this discussion.
But all packages should support devfs-like names as well (and most do).

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Marco | [5539 infE4whlQmxTk]



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