On Monday 04 June 2001 10:34, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:37:19PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > Another thing any package that depends on the creation of nodes under > > /dev MUST depend on "makedev | devfsd". People who run devfsd do not > > need to have makedev installed. > > Well, makedev is priority: required and section: base. Is it > necessary for packages to declare an explicit dependency in that > case?
Currently many (most? all?) packages that need to create device nodes depend on makedev. I have been filing bug reports against them because I believe that they should depend on "makedev|devfs". I would be happy to have them depend on neither but the maintainers of some of the packages are quite adamant that they want to depend on such a package. As for it being required and base, I want to remove makedev from my systems. I have no need for it. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
