<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 April 2016 at 09:48, Gary Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary@mlbassoc.com" target="_blank">gary@mlbassoc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":4f8" class="a3s aXjCH">Is there any way to not have both the hwdb.bin (which I assume<br>
is a binary version of the hardware databases) and /etc/udev/hwdb.d?<br>
Perhaps there is some way to only use one?<br>
<br>
Or maybe there is a better choice, such as mdev? I'm not sure about<br>
this (no experience) but my system needs to handle plug&play devices<br>
which the current eudev does well. It's just a huge "price" to pay.</div></blockquote></div><br>You could not install hwdb at all, it's a recommends so you can BAD_RECOMMENDS it away. It's certainly possible to wipe away the source files for hwdb if you don't care about extending them at runtime but nobody has done that yet: a rootfs postproccess hook could delete it and confirm that everything works fine.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></div>