Re: new release of udev?

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On May 22, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> 
>>It was _you_ who asked to be able to overwrite the system specified rules
>>for symlinks. That's not possible this way. And again, how do you prevent
> Sure it is: if you want to override any previous value you use SYMLINK> instead of the usual SYMLINK+=.
> 
No. Definitely not.
This would break _every_ rule file out there as the current
specification for SYMLINK= is 'add to the existing SYMLINK'.
The semantics _have_ to stay the same. If you want different
funtionality, use different symbols.
Otherwise you end up in maintenance hell.

But you are correct in one point, that is that the 'reset symlinks list'
functionality is not provided.

So I propose a new type of assignment,

SYMLINK%
which resets the list and add the argument as the first element in that
list.

Then we'll have:

SYMLINK%= (reset and add to list)
SYMLINK= (add to list)
SYMLINK:= (add and terminate list)

which make for a full set of modifications.

Cheers,

Hannes
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