Re: /etc/udev/rules.d non-symlinks

2007-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Marco d'Itri wrote: > It's OK, I planned to discuss this after the release. > Experience showed that generally other packages do not need an easy way > to disable their whole rules files, so I think we can conclude that > usage of symlinks can be restricted to some of udev's own files and > eventua

Re: /etc/udev/rules.d non-symlinks

2007-04-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:11:57PM +0200, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > > The intent is to let users disable a udev rule by removing the symlink, or > > reorder a rule to a different number by renaming the symlink. Putting a > > rules

Re: /etc/udev/rules.d non-symlinks

2007-04-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 09, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm proposing that we change our de-facto policy for handling of files > in /etc/udev/rules.d. Currently it is this (from udev's README.Debian): It's OK, I planned to discuss this after the release. Experience showed that generally other packages d

Re: /etc/udev/rules.d non-symlinks

2007-04-10 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > The intent is to let users disable a udev rule by removing the symlink, or > reorder a rule to a different number by renaming the symlink. Putting a rules > conffile directly in /etc/udev/rules.d/ wouldn't allow for this, and as Marco > says in #359614, this

Re: /etc/udev/rules.d non-symlinks

2007-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:50:58PM -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm proposing that we change our de-facto policy for handling of files > > in /etc/udev/rules.d. Currently it is this (from udev's README.Debian): > > > > Packages should NEVER create files in

Re: /etc/udev/rules.d non-symlinks

2007-04-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:50:58PM -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm proposing that we change our de-facto policy for handling of files > in /etc/udev/rules.d. Currently it is this (from udev's README.Debian): > > Packages should NEVER create files in /etc/udev/rules.d/, but crea

/etc/udev/rules.d non-symlinks

2007-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
I'm proposing that we change our de-facto policy for handling of files in /etc/udev/rules.d. Currently it is this (from udev's README.Debian): Packages should NEVER create files in /etc/udev/rules.d/, but create a symlink the first time the package is installed (and never try again, to allow