[systemd-devel] [PATCH] udev hwdb: Support shipping pre-compiled database in system images

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 27.10.14 16:31, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote:

> 2014-10-27 16:21 GMT+01:00 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> >> Sounds all fine, I would prefer though to use --usr-only or
> >> --system-only, something a little bit more descriptive than just
> >> --vendor though. The hwdb data is full ov "vendor" strings and it
> >> sounds too confusing to me.
> >
> > I'd prefer "--usr" then for this. It's short, and descriptive. The
> > "-only" suffix probably creates more confusion than clears things up,
> > hence I'd avoid that.
> 
> Keep in mind, that with split-usr, the hwdb files are in /lib/udev/hwdb
> 
> So --usr would be confusing/misleading.

Well, I think that's OK really. We want to stay compatible with
split-usr distros, but that kind of setup is really not at the focus
of what we design for.

I still think this should be named --usr. After all, moving those
files away from /etc doesn't really make sense on split-/usr systems
anyway, as it wouldn't help monopolizing vendor data in /usr
really... Or at least I think the --usr stuff is really about
monopolizing vendor data in /usr, and if you have a split-/usr system
then that goal is moot anyway...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat