Re: [PATCH] udev: sync udev rules directories with systemd units directories

[William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>]

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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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