From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACE51386DF for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:08:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D911921C08F; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:08:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B546821C024 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:08:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.177.7.19] (212-226-42-68-nat.elisa-mobile.fi [212.226.42.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ssuominen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 78D7933D8FF for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:08:41 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <510542D6.3070007@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:08:06 +0200 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130114 Thunderbird/17.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev Subject: [gentoo-dev] /lib/modprobe.d vs. /etc/modprobe.d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ebbc2bfc-deb9-4abd-b344-186d205e3991 X-Archives-Hash: 46ec29d2953d066d8123730c9f592e49 I see a lot of packages installing /etc/modprobe.d when it should be treated like /etc/udev, so only generated files and users own files I'm suggesting converting ebuilds to install into /lib/modprobe.d and then tell users to copy it to /etc/modprobe.d for editing and replacing the run of the same from /lib/modprobe.d just like you would now copy .rules to /etc/udev/rules.d and edit them there, instead of directly in /lib/udev/rules.d/ /lib should be static, just like /usr, and should be allowed to mount RO did I miss something? if not, i'll open a Tracker to get this done (when do we get rid of /usr/portage again, and when will /usr/src be symlink to somewhere where it can be writable?)