[systemd-devel] [PATCH 2/2] keymap: add --version option

Kay Sievers kay at vrfy.org
Tue Jul 17 08:21:25 PDT 2012


On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
 tool from udev, and no public interface. It is
>> installed in /usr/lib/udev/. We only provide some guarantees for stuff
>> we consider ABI, which means the tool gets installed in /usr/bin.
>>
>> There are absolutely zero guarantees how this tool behaves or if will
>> exist in the next release of systemd. Nothing besides udev rules
>> should ever call it, or rely on it.
>
> Thanks for the explanation. I thought 'keymap --version' would be nice
> for consistency, but I guess that it's not necessary.

Yeah, it probably isn't. We have whole bunch of tools in
/usr/lib/udev/ and they usually don't do that. They are just "parts"
of udev, and should not get out-of-sync with its version.

Kay


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