Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 31, md wrote: > >> The issue was raised by the udev upstream maintainer along with the udev >> package maintainers of the major distributions, who all agreed that this >> configuration is not supported. > FYI, udev 146 ships usb-id and pci-id programs which read > /usr/share/misc/usb.ids and /usr/share/misc/pci.ids . Wouldn't make it sense then if udev had a recommends or at least suggests for usbutils and pciutils? > udev itself does not care about the results of these programs but other > programs which used to use HAL may do, leading to subtle breakage. How will usb-id and pci-id behave, if the ids files are not accessible? > There are no obvious workarounds and I have no plan to fight against > this, if you need it to work on systems with a standalone /usr then > feel free to persuade the relevant maintainers to move the files. > > I also opened #544503 because supporting a standalone /var looks like > a worthwhile effort, while supporting updating usb.ids with a script > instead of apt looks like a complete idiocy. I agree with you. Given that I had more than once bug reports against hal due to broken pci.ids or usb.ids files, I'd prefer if update-usbids and update-pciids would go away. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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