On Sep 01, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: > Why do programs need udev to read this information in at driver load time? > Why can't packages that need this information query it when they need it > (which is well after /usr is mounted), instead of expecting udev to provide > it? I did not design this aspect of udev, I am just packaging it. > What are the programs that are behaving this way, and why should we not > consider *those* to be buggy for expecting udev to feed it text strings out > of a database? I don't know, maybe you should discuss this on the linux-hotplug mailing list. > You are drawing an artificial distinction between /usr and /var which is not > consistent with the standard, nor with how I've been laying out my > filesystems for years. I'm not going to refactor my disk layout on upgrade But it is consistent with what upstream (i.e., other distributions) wants to support. -- ciao, Marco
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