[Libosinfo] [PATCH] Ditch udev rule

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 06:33:08PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 05:22:23PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> >> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
>> >>
>> >> New udev/blkid expose more ISO9660 properties that apps can grab and
>> >> set on install media for detection to work. As a result our udev rule
>> >> becomes redundant.
>> >>
>> >> This improves system bootup time conciderably if there is an ISO9660
>> >> media inserted during bootup as our udev rule needed to parse the XML
>> >> etc and is therefore pretty slow (keeping in mind that a few seconds are
>> >> a long time in the land of modern udev/systemd).
>> >
>> > ACK, I never liked this rule existing in libosinfo in the first
>> > place.
>>
>> Cool. Since merging this before systemd release would mean breaking
>> unattended installations in Boxes (and a few other things), lets merge
>> this after systemd release (expected in a week).
>
> Well that's assuming people are installing these in lockstep which
> is not required. This dependancy is merely a distro packager or
> documentation issue. There's  no need to hold off putting this in
> libosinfo

I'm fine with both keeping the rules for now and ditching it already.
I'll let you and Christophe convince each other.

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124