Re: [gpsd-users] gpsd/udev behavior

[Paul Fox]

eric s. raymond wrote:
 > Paul Fox <address@hidden>:
 > > so perhaps debian and fedora should be encouranged to pick a value. 
 > > and since i bet that value would be "dialout" in both cases, i now
 > > wonder whether gpsd should simply set that as the default gpsd_group
 > > value.  it would have solved my problem.
 > 
 > Or you could have built with gpsd_group=dialout, which would set that
 > as the privilege group.
 > 
 > Whether gpsd_group=dialout should be the default or we should continue to
 > look at the ownership of a prototype device comes down to a question of which
 > handles the larger percentage of out-of-the-box configurations.
 > 
 > I'm disinclined to change unless there's clear evidence that defaulting
 > to 'dialout' would be better.  

okay.

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 paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 65.7 degrees)