Re: [PATCH] The Ubuntu Collection

[md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)]

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On Dec 07, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:

> > 55-run-program.patch
> >     This reduces the severity of the "exec of program failed" error IF
> >     the reason the program couldn't be run was because it didn't exist
> Yeah, I'm still unsure if the used tool should be required to be in the
> rootfs or not. But it sounds like a sane default, if we don't require
> this.
I'd rather not use such a patch, because in the end it will hide real
problems.

> For the higher level things HAL is the approproate place to do device
> setup anyway. That's the reason I ignored all the map conversion things,
> cause digital cameras, scanners and such things belong to HAL these days
> and not in udev rules.
Tell this to the libsane/libgphoto maintainers... :-)

> Hmm, I'm no longer sure that the C programs for something that is
> usually 20 lines of shell long and called 3 times at bootup make sense.
> For the firmware case I always wanted to add some handling for missing
> firmware, but even for this we would not need a C program. Hmm...
Indeed. All these programs are much larger than a small shell, and I
just do not believe that shell script would not be efficient enough.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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