bug#345: marked as done (lspci looks in /usr/local)

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Package: pciutils

lspci looks for pci.ids in /usr/local/share, and doesn't find it there
(because /usr/local isn't a symlink to /).  Therefore, lspci can't
find pci.ids and doesn't display human-readable names for PCI devices.

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It didn't, it does now.

closes 345.

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