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From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 20:30:51 +0000
Subject: Re: systemd-183
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Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can say that there are several packages currently required by configure
>> that are not needed by a udev only build:  intltool, XML::Parser, libpcap2,
>> attr, usbutils, libusb, pciutils, and dbus.
> 
> Regarding usbutils and pciutils: these are not needed at compile-time
> if you pass in the correct configure switch to set the {pci,usb}ids
> path.
> 
> The {pci,usb}ids databases are however needed by udev on runtime and
> they are traditionally shipped with {usb,pci}utils, so that's
> something to keep in mind.
> 
> On Arch (as well as on Gentoo), we deal with this by shipping the
> databases in a separate package[0], and dropping the dependency on
> {pci,usb}utils. Maybe that's something other's would benefit from too.

We may have been doing it incorrectly, but we've used

--with-usb-ids-path=no
--with-pci-ids-path=no

in LFS for some time with udev.  No one has reported any problems with 
that, but there may have been some latent issues we are not aware of.

   -- Bruce