On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
Upstream says: we should be installing a symlink [1], which potentially means we don't have to make changes elsewhere or tightly couple versions of our packages.
Rereading the NEWS file I see that it does indeed suggest adding the symlink as an alternative to updating initscripts+mkinitcpio.
On a related note from the same, for restarting, the `udevadm control --exit && udevd --daemon` process should work for restarting for us old farts not using systemd and not restarting our boxes once a week. I believe you could also run `udevadm trigger` if you were worried you missed any events.
It should be pointed out that Kay also confirmed that restarting in this way would potentially lose events. I'm really not happy about adding a kludge whose only use-case is to do something that is kind of broken in the first place. That said, I guess we could do it to please the conservatives. At least in a transitional period, so we don't have to release all the packages at the same time (which I understood was one of the main objections). I'll mark it as deprecated though, and promise to remove it in the not too distant future. -t