[Libosinfo] [PATCH] Ditch udev rule

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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

Daniel
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