[arch-general] udev rules policy

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 22 April 2009 schrieb Damjan Georgievski:
>> What is the policy for Udev rules in ArchLinux?
>>
>> There are 2 places where udev rules can be placed, /lib/udev/rules.d/
>> and /etc/udev/rules.d/.
>> Now, I think the /lib/ directory should be only for the rules coming
>> from upstream udev, and the /etc/ directory is for rules coming from
>> ArchLinux packages.
>>
>> If this is the policy everyone agrees on - and as far as I remember,
>> udev devs recommends it too - maybe namcap can check that too?
>>
>> ps.
>> the KVM package now has rules in /lib/ , so I'll open a bug report if
>> that's not supposed to be like that.
> Normally udev rules should go to /lib that the user can override them with
> /etc rule file.

Yeah, I'm fairly certain this is the case - if you copy a rule file to
/etc from /lib, you can make changes and it will use that one instead
of /lib. In theory.