Lennart Poettering [2013-06-17 18:27 +0200]: > We try to push some of the more exotic device metadata into the > respective packages and the developers of those packages should be > able to rely on being able to drop in additional hwdb and have > things work everywhere. If Ubuntu then goes and doesn't allow > drop-ins and moves generation of these files to compile-time then > you effectively make that impossible. And that's really uncool of > you.
It wasn't really about not allowing things, but rather about making it easy to change or revert the current patch while this is being discussed. I wanted to fix the hwdb integration without adding a config file which then needs special treatment again for removal, as in dpkg config files are basically "holy". If/once there are actually other packages wanting to add stuff there, we'll re-add the dynamic generation of course. But for now there is no reason to do so, it just wastes cycles, dramatically complicates the handling of the cache files, and adds an extra 5 MB to the install footprint. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
