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Re: udev and /usr



hey,

On 01/09/2009 Mike Hommey wrote:
> 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 /)

do we really consider to stop support for seperate /usr? after all fhs
supports seperate /usr by design. [1]
i hope that we keep fhs compability within debian.

greetings,
 jonas

[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEROOTFILESYSTEM

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