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 D21ED138010 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:45:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE2BCE0D25; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:45:38 +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 C1DCCE0D20 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:45:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.185.119.106] (85-76-143-254-nat.elisa-mobile.fi [85.76.143.254]) (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 6D7D933BE3D for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:45:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51559AA4.3030704@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:44:04 +0200 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130327 Thunderbird/17.0.4 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@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt References: <51554C37.4000508@gentoo.org> <51557D48.5010008@flameeyes.eu> <51558704.20904@gentoo.org> <201303291424.45080.dilfridge@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4c00bbd0-52c9-4790-af77-f9e383b36e4f X-Archives-Hash: 98b67cc83e9ea14ff32a5e86a0c67c1f On 29/03/13 15:30, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Andreas K. Huettel > wrote: >> Not really. Every time I modified anything in there, it just took a few udev >> versions and suddenly I was flooded with deprecation warnings a la "things >> work different now, find out on your own how to fix it..." > > Not to mention at least in the past it has tended to accumulate > orphans. I was getting tons of warnings on boot-up and discovered > that config protection left a ton of files in there from > who-knows-when. Granted, this is on a system that has been running > Gentoo for about a decade now (every part in it has changed several > times, but the OS has steadily migrated along). > > Now I'm down to 5 files in there, and only one of them is my > local.rules file. If udev is going to stick stuff in /etc then it > really needs to have better communication when this stuff needs to be > modified/cleaned/etc, and what users are and aren't supposed to touch. > > Rich > What do you have there? We cover bunch of those in pkg_postinst of udev already.