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Hello 👋

It seems like other projects also create 90-backlight.rules file, which causes unnecessary conflicts, which has been reported here.

I noticed that at least on my system, many other rules files in /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/ are namespaced with the application name that owns them.

What do you think if we simply do the same?

Sounds reasonable to namespace the file, however they may still conflict with each other functionally for the program that reads them (udev or whatever). Which I think may risk making the issue worse?

Anyone more read up on the issue is very welcome to comment with more info!

Good point 👍 If the functionality conflicts, we mark such packages with conflicts flag, so both of them could not be installed at the same time. In this particular case the apps can coexists, I just want to solve the naming conflict. In the end it's the responsibility of the packagers (or users) to not install conflicting packages, a generic name does not solve this anyway 🙂