[RFC] Making D-Bus suitable for being run early during boot

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Fri Jul 9 09:54:15 PDT 2010


Em Sexta-feira 09 Julho 2010, às 18:14:36, Lennart Poettering escreveu:
> Well, the problem with /lib is is that it belongs to the package manager
> and is supposed to be identical on all machines. If we would move it
> there it would be the only file there which would have a different
> content on all machines beneath that directory. And we'd have to patch
> the various package manager so that they don't whine about this.

I'm not sure I agree with you.

There are definitely files that are managed by tools in /lib, like those managed 
by depmod in /lib/modules/`uname -r`. In fact, the machine-id file would be 
modified even *fewer* times times than those -- think of dkms running when 
modules are updated.

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