On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 01:55:01PM +0100, Martin Read wrote: > On 15/09/14 01:46, Marty wrote: > >(not OP but) I require the exclusion all packages by their dev teams > >from my computer. Is that clear enough? Linus doesn't trust them. Why > >should I? > > Just to be sure you're aware of what you're asking for: that > includes udev, which: > > (a) in Debian is a hard dependency of initramfs-tools (a hard > dependency of Debian's kernel packages), fuse, and > xserver-xorg-core.
Of those only xserver-xorg-core uses versioned dependency on udev (and the real obstacle would be libudev0, as wheezy's xorg can function without udev just fine), initramfs-tools can be persuaded to use busybox's mdev (with some equivs trickery), fuse's actual dependency is 'udev | makedev'. Still, I agree that removing udev from Debian is non-trivial at best. > (b) has been housed since version 184 (circa May 2012) in the > systemd repository (although the program(s) comprising the udev > package in Debian do not depend on systemd, systemd-logind, > systemd-journald, or the published interfaces thereof) Which did lead to all kinds of funny results in the past - [1]. > (c) is in large part maintained by Kay Sievers. Oh, you mean that guy who was banned by Linus - [2]? [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/518942/ [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/2/420 Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140915153018.GA3085@x101h
