More LiveCD space optimizations

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Martin,
Martin Owens [2010-11-07  1:36 -0400]:
> That already is written in C, it's the script that pulls in the config
> and runs the usb_modeswitch program which is written in tcl.
> 
> It should be very possible to convert it to python or vala.

No python please, it has the same poor boot time behaviour. C or vala
or anything compiled should do.

> I have to wonder what 200 udev rules all with different vendor and
> product ids does to the boot time.

Not much, since either none or just one will match on your system.
usb-modeswitch needs those long lists, but udev is good at efficient
rule matching and parsing (that's what it is for, after all).

Martin
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