[systemd-devel] [PATCH] man: ship systemd-udevd as the real manpage

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On 07/31/2012 11:56 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Sun, 29.07.12 12:43, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) wrote:
>>> We name all the service man pages after the service name, since that is
>>> how people will primarily come in contact with it (i.e. they'll do
>>> "systemctl start systemd-udevd.service", but never run
>>> /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd directly).
>>>
>>> We design this stuff so that it is nicely integrated and uniform in its
>>> behaviour. We'll not depart from that because people who don't use
>>> systemd might be confused. 
>>
>> I'm not interested in installing without systemd myself, but I still
>> don't think this is a bad idea: the change is transparent in current
>> default installation (if we ignore the change in the title of a
>> manpage), and apparently it helps people who install without systemd.
> 
> It's actually not transparent, since the man page lists both names
> anyway and the primary name exposed in URLs such as
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-udevd.service.html
> are actually very much visible. 
Right.

> I mean, this is admittedly all more on the side of nitpicking, rather
> then anything important, but I think it is nice to keep things as
> straightforward as possible, and stick to one scheme and one scheme only
> for naming things. And that scheme is: if its in /usr/bin, then name it
> by executable name, otherwise by service name.
OK.

But the problem remains: there are people who want to just build udev.
And this is officially supported, as promised in the announcement of the
udev+systemd merge. I would think that an easy way to build and install
just udev related parts would be nice.

Zbyszek