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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:24:44 -0400
From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:48:08 -0500
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 04:59:11PM -0400, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > How do you plan to handle the following: 
> > - foo installs an udev rule
> > - install foo with old udev
> > - upgrade udev
> > 
> > are rules installed by foo used by new udev ?
> 
> No, they wouldn't be; that is a good reason to question the value of
> the eclass itself. Maybe the correct way to do this is to forget the
> eclass and just file bugs against packages that break having them
> move their rules to the new location and set a dependency on the
> newer udev.
> 
> This would have to be a rev bump for the broken packages.

this sounds heavy for only changing the location of a file, but that's
the only sane solution i can think of :(

A.