From: "Andraž \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>
To: sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] PERFORCE change 79107 by Juuso Alasuutari for review
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 01:04:50 +0200
>>> Excessive quoting removed
>
> I'm not sure what a sane default for udev would contain. Certainly the
> rules to move device nodes to subdirectories (e.g. alsa nodes in
> /dev/snd) as those are required by applications/libraries using that
> stuff.
> If we want to go the bare bones config + optional candy way, the basic
> rules should only contain the above and whatever is necessary
> permission/group wise to get sorcery working.
> With our current rules, there is indeed quite a bit of policy involved,
> including group settings and permissions for devices, but for most users
> this makes stuff a lot easier (i.e. they just have to add their users to
> the audio group to get sound). Udev makes it reasonably easy (albeit not
> trivial) to change all of those settings without touching our
> spell-installed rules files, so I think we can continue with our current
> ruleset, though it probably wouldn't hurt to modularize it a bit more.
How about if we provide the same thing we provide for the nano spell...
A list of possible rulesets to install ragning from:
sane-minimal-default to a full-blown-do-all-the-magic
And simply let the user decide which one they want...
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Andraž "ruskie" Levstik
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