Re: Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 06:45:00PM +0100, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:45:48 -0800, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > Actually I was considering just dropping the permissions.d file
> > entirely, as I think we don't need it anymore.  But I have not had the
> > time to determine if this is possible or not just yet.
> 
> This sounds cool, but it will also mean, that we have bigger rules, as
> most of the rules will need a GROUP="" statement then.

That is true.

> > Um, I have no control over the debian udev rules files, I just mirror in
> > the udev tree what the maintainer gives to me.
> > 
> I use gentoo, but why do we even have different rules.d files? Can we
> not make as much as possible common in them? What are the differences
> between the distributions?

Unfortunatly, lots of little things.

> With this system we have some rules missing in every distributions
> rules file, because bugfixes and new features are commonly applied
> only to one rules file.

Very true.  Any help in making sure all rules are in all distro files is
greatly appreciated.

thanks,

greg k-h


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