Re: systemd-183

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tom Gundersen wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I can say that there are several packages currently required by configure
>>> that are not needed by a udev only build:  intltool, XML::Parser,
>>> libpcap2,
>>> attr, usbutils, libusb, pciutils, and dbus.
>>
>>
>> Regarding usbutils and pciutils: these are not needed at compile-time
>> if you pass in the correct configure switch to set the {pci,usb}ids
>> path.
>>
>> The {pci,usb}ids databases are however needed by udev on runtime and
>> they are traditionally shipped with {usb,pci}utils, so that's
>> something to keep in mind.
>>
>> On Arch (as well as on Gentoo), we deal with this by shipping the
>> databases in a separate package[0], and dropping the dependency on
>> {pci,usb}utils. Maybe that's something other's would benefit from too.
>
>
> We may have been doing it incorrectly, but we've used
>
> --with-usb-ids-path=no
> --with-pci-ids-path=no
>
> in LFS for some time with udev.  No one has reported any problems with that,
> but there may have been some latent issues we are not aware of.

Nothing should go wrong.

It's only that some user interfaces want to be nice and show the
'real' name of the devices. But if the ids databases are not around,
they will fall back to things like "Audio Device" instead of "Intel
HDA Audio" and such.

Kay
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