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

[Michael Biebl]

2014-10-27 16:37 GMT+01:00 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> 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...

Well, as I suggested earlier, --system sounds just more logical to me.
This switch after all is for creating a cache for the system supplied
hwdb files.
And it has the nice benefit of being without ambiguity for both
split-usr and merged-usr systems.
So I don't see a good reason to not pick that original suggestion from
Kay (without the -only).

Michael


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