Re: udev and /usr
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:41:41 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Sep 04, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > I still can't fathom why someone decided that udev should be responsible for
> > translating PCI IDs and USB IDs into text strings. This smells of crazy.
> I think that part of the rationale is that eventually HAL will go away
> replaced by udev and programs like this (e.g. look at the keyboard stuff).
>
Former hal users will still be able to look stuff up in {usb,pci}.ids,
udev doesn't have to do it for them.
Cheers,
Julien
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