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On 01/10/13 21:41, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 01/10/2013 09:38 PM, Manu Abraham wrote:
>> The format can be definitely changed. There's no issue to it.
>
> No you cannot. Applications depend on that, it's part of the dvb ABI. If
> you changed that, you would do the same mistake as Mauro let it flowing
> through his tree and it was pointed out by Linus in the link you sent...
>

Actually, there's plenty of apps etc that depend on it. I know some 
distro's install it into /usr/share/dvb for all to use. I think actually 
only a very small handfull use their own scanfiles. Very small handfull 
I belive ;)