On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:38:24PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > Udev will *never* look in /usr/local, that is no place for > system-level software. My take on this is: early boot has absolutely > zero business in /usr/local. > > I see that you just want to sync this, but I will not allow /usr/local > happen to udev. It makes no sense, does not solve any problem, creates > nothing but needless issues with custom setups and custom mounts > (which are not uncommon) on /usr/local that are better avoided. > > I tried several times to talk Lennart out of that nonsense, but wasn't > successful so far. :) > > > TEST_PREFIX UDEVLIBEXECDIR "/rules.d", > > + TEST_PREFIX "/usr/lib/udev/rules.d", > > +#ifdef HAVE_SPLIT_USR > > + TEST_PREFIX "/lib/udev/rules.d", > > +#endif > > I have no problem with that, even when I think it's the wrong way to > do these things. It just creates mess, that is much bigger than the > split-usr ever was. But we have it in systemd, and there is no real > argument for me to make against it. I'm personally not concerned with /usr/local, but the portion above is the more important to me. For split /usr systems, there is a lot of software that installs rules in /lib/udev, so I think we need to support that directory. Should I resubmit the patch? Thanks, William
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