Hi there!

On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:17:02 +0200, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> Excerpts from Didier Raboud's message of Sun Aug 05 02:33:45 -0700 2012:
>> Le samedi, 4 août 2012 23.56:02, Andrew Pimlott a écrit :
>> > libfprint0 should trigger the udev rules when it installs them. 
>> 
>> I don't think that libfprint should be special-cased here. On my system, 
>> there 
>> are 32 different packages installing udev rules under /lib/udev/rules.d and 
>> libfprint is certainly not the only one that would benefit from "udevadm 
>> trigger" runs.
>
> That sound reasonable.  I would definitely be happy with a solution
> that covers other packages.  The only thing that might be different is
> that most other devices you can simply remove and plug in again.  I
> can't do that with my build-in fingerprint reader.

IMHO this is enough for libfprint being a special case.

>> In my understanding of the situation of the udev rules, there is a 
>> requirement 
>> to reboot to have things working correctly; and that's nothing libfprint 
>> should fix for its own benefit.
>
> That doesn't sound reasonable to me!  I'm not used to rebooting after I
> install packages, even if they are desktop-oriented.

Not reasonable to me either and `man udevadm` does not say anything
about reboot.  Marco, do you have any suggestion?

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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