Re: udev and /usr

[Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>]

Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:

> 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 .
>> 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.
> 
> Reading again your mail, I think we are discussing a inexistent problem.
> 
> You say that "some programs which use HAL may do" use /usr/share.

Hal also lives on /usr, so I don't see the problem either.

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Felipe Sateler