Cleaner seperation between user fdi's and system fdi's ?

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 22:55 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 04:26:23PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 20:58 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:36:50PM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > >   I quickly looked at the code and it seems trivial to first scan
> > > >   /usr/share/hal/fdi and then /etc/hal/fdi..
> > > 
> > > Patch attached to do this.. Comments ? 
> > 
> > What is the advantage of having it in both /etc and /usr/share?
> 
> The advantage is that you have the user configurable part in /etc, which is the
> normal case for unix systems.. 
> 
> Why not have it in both? The change to the code is trivial.
> 

I think we could do that when I branch 0.4.x to a stable branch. I don't
really want to change big user-visible things right now.

Cheers,
David

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