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[Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org>]

We're finally headed towards stable 0.6, meaning that the transition from 
hotplug to udev is inevitable for stable users. At the moment our spells 
aren't quite ready for it, and this is something we definitely need to fix 
before releasing.

I'm responsible for this issue and could use some suggestions. Here's what 
the 
situation will be at the time of upgrade from stable 0.4 to 0.6:

- users will have hotplug and the old udev installed
- users will have the 2.6.14.2 kernel installed
- the new udev needs a kernel >= 2.6.15 to do hotplugging, it will refuse to 
cast otherwise
- hotplug is officially deprecated in favor of udev's module autoloading

What needs to happen is:

- a recent kernel absolutely must be cast before udev
- casting the new udev must deprecate (dispel) hotplug

It seems that this can be achieved simply by making udev 'conflict y' with 
hotplug. But what if hotplug comes later on in the upgrade install queue? 
Then udev would dispel hotplug, which would still be recast afterwards. On 
the other hand I don't think we want to completely deprecate hotplug; there 
might be the odd case where it's wanted.

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        Juuso Alasuutari
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